Post by Catscratch on Feb 11, 2021 14:18:47 GMT -6
I've been looking at different grasses for habitat. Switch is an obvious one for interseeding in cattle pasture as it seems to outgrow grazing (it's not a preferred food) and requires no protection to make winter cover. Cattle are great but they do have drawbacks.
Eastern gamagrass is one that I'm thinking of putting in pasture that doesn't see regular cattle. We have some that's native, but not much. It's a preferred food for cattle and the first grass they eat to the ground. If there is E. gamagrass in the pasture they won't touch other grasses until they can't get any more EGG. Thinking of bordering some of my plots with it, and maybe a strip here and there.
You guys have EGG up north? Any experience with establishing it?
Eastern gamagrass is one that I'm thinking of putting in pasture that doesn't see regular cattle. We have some that's native, but not much. It's a preferred food for cattle and the first grass they eat to the ground. If there is E. gamagrass in the pasture they won't touch other grasses until they can't get any more EGG. Thinking of bordering some of my plots with it, and maybe a strip here and there.
You guys have EGG up north? Any experience with establishing it?