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Tallgrass Prairie Vegetation Response To Spring Burning Dates, Fertilizer, And Atrazine, Robert B. Mitchell, Robert A. Masters, Steven S. Waller, Kenneth Moore, Linda J. Young
Tallgrass Prairie Vegetation Response To Spring Burning Dates, Fertilizer, And Atrazine, Robert B. Mitchell, Robert A. Masters, Steven S. Waller, Kenneth Moore, Linda J. Young
United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications
Tallgrass prairies provide an important source of hay and summer forage in eastern Nebraska. A study was conducted in 1989 and 1990 on 2 late seral tallgrass prairies near Lincoln and Virginia, Nebraska to determine if production of selected components of tallgrass prairie communities could be altered by burning (not burned, or burned in either early, mid-, or late spring) and applying fertilizer (0 and 67-23 kg N-P ha-1) and atrazine [6- chloro-N-ethyl-N'-(1-methylethyl)-1,3,5-triazine-2,4-diamine] (0 and 2.2 kg a.i. ha-1). Vegetation was harvested the year treatments were applied at about 30-day intervals starting in June and ending …
Harvest Frequency And Burning Effects On Monocultures Of 3 Warm-Season Grasses, Gregory J. Cuomo, Bruce Anderson, Linda J. Young, Wally Wilhelm
Harvest Frequency And Burning Effects On Monocultures Of 3 Warm-Season Grasses, Gregory J. Cuomo, Bruce Anderson, Linda J. Young, Wally Wilhelm
United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications
Harvest frequency and burning can affect forage yield of monocultures of switchgrass (Panicurn virgutum L.), big bluestem (Andropogon gerurdii Vitman), and Indian grass [Sorghastrum nutuns (L.) Nash]. Current information is based largely on results from mixed stands. A field experiment was established in 1986, and from 1988 to 1991 treatments were applied with burning in March, April, or May plus an unburned control. Growing season yield was measured by harvesting 1 (June), 2 (June and July), or 3 (June, July, and August) times with unharvested control plots included. End-of-season standing crop from all plots was determined …