Content tagged with crabgrass
Balancing Forage Production
The importance of balancing forage production! One lesson that farming has taught me is that there is no silver bullet. You hear a lot about selecting THE right forage for your area as if there is a single forage that will meet the need. In the Southeast, as part of the transition zone of the United States, there is no single forage to meet our…
Summer Annual Grass Selection Guide
Navigate all of the different species of summer annual grasses to learn what will work best for you.
Red River Crabgrass as a Forage
If you have ever been in the row crop or bermudagrass hay business, the name “crabgrass” makes you cringe. This prolific summer annual grass has been rampant across the Southeast for years, showing itself in corn and soybean fields and filling in between fescue and bermudagrass plants in pastures. Its capacity to reseed, “crawl”, survive through…
Crabgrass: A Short Step from Weed to Valuable Forage!
Everyone knows crabgrass as a weed; few know it as a valuable summer annual forage. That view is changing with more and more producers planting and utilizing crabgrass as part of their forage-livestock production systems. There are differences between the weedy type and the cultivated type. Both are botanically in the genus Digitaria…