per
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There are three identifiable plants in this photo.
Botany from the prairies
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gcreekrch
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Brome, Alsike clover and foxtail barley
per
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Too fast gcreek, it was maturing Meadow Brome.
Faster horses
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Alsike clover is the small plant with the purple blossom.
(gee, I'd like to be right once)! :shock: :wink:
I have to say, I am enjoying these 'botany' questions.
(gee, I'd like to be right once)! :shock: :wink:
I have to say, I am enjoying these 'botany' questions.
per
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Faster horses said:Alsike clover is the small plant with the purple blossom.
(gee, I'd like to be right once)! :shock: :wink:
I have to say, I am enjoying these 'botany' questions.
gold star for you FH
Faster horses
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So that must be irrigated or sub-irrigated ground, correct?
gcreekrch
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per said:
Ohhhh Brome grass is Brome grass, my cows can't tell the difference.
per
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Dryland FH a year ago with a good rainy June behind it. Doesn't look that good today. Gcreek, meadow brome will keep coming from the bunch if it keeps getting rain, long after smooth brome is done. Not that good for baling though. I have some hybrid brome that isn't as good as either.
Red Barn Angus
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I had no idea that brome grew over such a large area. What we have here is smooth brome I think. It is a cool season grass that comes on early in the spring and provides excellent grazing before the native grasses begin to grow. It pretty much goes dormant over the heat of the summer and then greens up in the fall. It does have to be fertilized to do very well though. Brome hay put up fairly early makes excellent high protein hay. Great for calves or feedlots. It cost about $40 an acre to fertilize it this spring. Yield is 2 to 3 tons in a decent year. The biggest challenge here with the hay is that the best time to harvest it also is one of the more rainy times of the year here. Didn't mean to hijack the thread but I just found it interesting that brome was such a widely grown grass.
Faster horses
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In this country, brome isn't very highly thought of; maybe because it takes too much moisture. In W. Montana we loved it, and as Red Barn Angus mentioned, it made really nice hay.
RBA--you need to get away from home more. :wink: :lol: :lol:
RBA--you need to get away from home more. :wink:
:lol: :lol:Faster horses said:In this country, brome isn't very highly thought of; maybe because it takes too much moisture. In W. Montana we loved it, and as Red Barn Angus mentioned, it made really nice hay.
RBA--you need to get away from home more. :wink:
Meadow brome's biggest drawback is seeding it. :? It wont go through the grass seed boxes, doesn't mix particularily well with the grain, and tends to bridge. And don't get me started about trying to broadcast it
However, in this country it is one of the premiere grasses and this year looks like it will be the main ingredient in our hay bales.
