Written by AAEP
Tall fescue is a grass which grows on over 35 million acres
of land in the United States. As many as 700,000 horses may graze fescue
pastures or be fed fescue hay each year. Many of these pastures contain fescue
that is infected with an endophytic fungus that is toxic to horses. When the
horse ingests the grass, it is steadily poisoned by alkaloids produced by the
fungus.
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