Tumble weeds when picked young, say under 12 inches tall, and boiled, taste just like spinich. My daddy told us many times, that his mama would send him out in the pasture to pick tumbleweeds for supper. This was back in the Early 40s. I had heard him tell this story many times, and I always thought, "yeah uh huh sure they taste like spinich". Till one day I said it outloud....and we went tumbleweed pickin, and mama cooked em....and they did taste like spinich.
I guess in West texas the cows do eat em when they are young and tender, but after they bloom and make the sticker part I don't think they much touch em. Only places you see them growin big is on the outside of the fences, if there's cows inside the fence.
"Ya know folks, maybe we could do a feed trial grazing cows on MJ with some of those EXT cows that Northern Rancher (I thinking of NR, now it's my turn for a brain fart!) dislikes so much and see if it mellows them out?????" by John SD.......
LOL an EXT on MJ.....now there's a visual I wouldn't want nothin to do with
