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Interseeding Native Warm-Season Grass Pastures, Jonathan D. Richwine
Interseeding Native Warm-Season Grass Pastures, Jonathan D. Richwine
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Cool-season annual (CSA) grass and legume species, as well as warm-season forbs, can enhance established native warm-season grass (NWSG) pastures by extending the grazing season, reducing supplemental feed costs, suppressing weeds, increasing herbage production and overall forage quality, and increasing food and cover resources for pollinators and wildlife. Therefore, two NWSG experiments were conducted near Spring Hill, TN, 2018-2020, to assess three CSA seeding options (cereal rye monoculture, a cereal rye, ‘Purple Top’ turnip, ‘Trophy’ rape, ‘Frosty’ berseem clover, and ‘Dixie’ crimson clover polyculture, or non-planted control) and two warm-season N rates (0 or 67 kg N ha-1) …