Managers on Kentucky horse farms prefer pastures used for grazing pregnant mares to be composed of Kentucky bluegrass and orchardgrass and little, if any, tall fescue. Most of the tall fescue in ...

This story was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network, a nonprofit news organization. America’s “fescue belt,” named for an exotic grass called tall fescue, dominates ...

When a hot, rainless fortnight turns most lawns the colour of straw, the patches that stay green are almost always tall fescue. It is the most drought-tolerant of the cool-season grasses, and the ...