- true11/10/2025From Alabama fields to Frankfort feed: Kentucky State harvests warm-season hay for applied researchWhen heat turns bluegrass brown, Kentucky State University goes where the grass is growing.
Auburn partnership advances practical forage solutions for cattle producersFRANKFORT, Ky. (Nov. 10, 2025) — When heat turns bluegrass brown, Kentucky State University goes where the grass is growing. Recently, a Kentucky State team traveled to Headland, Ala., worked with Auburn University’s Wiregrass Research and Extension Center to cut and bale summer annual hay, and hauled the fresh harvest back for the year ahead.The hay now sits at Kentucky State’s Harold R. Benson Research and Demonstration Farm, where it will s...