How to Fertilize Fescue Hay

Fescue Hay is a cool season grass typical in horse pastures. Fertilizing your Fescue Hay will help stimulate growth, producing bigger yields and healthier hay. Fertilization is needed multiple times a year, more so when cutting occurs more then once in the growing season. Nitrogen is the most essential nutrient Fescue Hay which it needs to acquire through fertilization.

Things You'll Need

  • Fescue Hay
  • Nitrogen fertilizer
  • Phosphate fertilizer
  • Potash fertilizer
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Instructions

    • 1

      Fertilize your Fescue Hay pasture in February with Nitrogen. Sixty to eighty pounds of Nitrogen per acre is needed if you are producing hay.

    • 2

      Fertilize with Nitrogen again after the spring cutting if you plant to cut in the summer or early fall again. Around seventy pounds per acre should be sufficient.

    • 3

      Prep your hay for winter and grazing by fertilizing with a mixture of Nitrogen, Phosphate and Potash in the late fall. Sixty pounds of the mixture will suffice.