I don't think so, Allan....if you have endophyte infection you basically have to renovate the pasture and be careful you don't get reseeding with endophytic rye...which means carefully clipping of the pasture in the year prior to plowdown to prevent seedhead production.
See: http://www.caf.wvu.edu/~forage/fescue_endophtye/Story.htm Compost tea is good stuff for many applications, but it isn't 'holy water' that can cure all ills...as far as I know...;-) Frank Teuton ----- Original Message ----- From: "Allan Balliett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 11:15 AM Subject: Re: endophytes was Re: Indigenous Microorganisms + Korean Natural Farming Association > >In a message dated 1/20/03 3:16:38 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > ><< > >It would be so fine to find out that this sort of fungi can be > >'overcome' through the use of CT, but I find it doubtful. > > > >Please, anyone who has any info on this, please share it. >> > > > >The beneficials in the CT would probably out compete the pathogens in a > >healthy environment..ss > > I think we were talking here about the sort of fungi that actually > lives WITHIN the plant, rather than upon the plant. This is the case > with the fescu fungi that stunt growth in beef and causes > 'mis-carraige' in horses. > > I'd sure like CT to take care of this, but doesn't seem unlikely that > there is a fungi that would both compete for the inside of the plant > AND be benign to livestock? > > -llan > >
