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Sod-Seeding Perennial Grasses Into Eastern Nebraska Pastures, John F. Sampson, Lowell E. Moser

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

Eastern Nebraska and neighboring areas have large amounts of depleted pastures which consist of annual bromegrasses (Bromus spp.), Kentucky bluegrass (Poapratensis L.), and numerous broadleaf weeds. Such pastures need renovation but complete seedbed preparation is expensive and may enhance erosion. The objective of our study was to determine if sod-seeding grasses offered an alternative to complete seedbed preparation. Three weedy pastures in southeast Nebraska on a Hastings silty clay loam (fine, montmorillonitic, mesic Udic Argiustoll), a Lamo silty clay loam [fine-silty, mixed (calcareous), mesic Cumulic Haplaquoll], and a Geary silty clay loam (fine-silty, mixed, mesic Udic Argiustoll) were …