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<blockquote data-quote="Brandonm22" data-source="post: 597591" data-attributes="member: 7645"><p>Sounds to me like piss poor management. If the forage gets ahead of the cattle, knock it down or add more cattle. Don't sit on the front porch sipping ice tea and let the stuff get five feet tall. This is Alabama. We have cattle grazing old strip mine land all over the place on nothing but Sericea lespedeza and Ky 31 fescue. Some cows wont work in that environment. Cull those cows and get rid of those bloodlines. That's a whole lot cheaper than plowing up the whole place. A lot of these show ponies just can't cut it in the real world. The whole concept of "invasive" plants is a bunch of bull. Fescue, Coastal bermuda,bahia, sericea lespedeza and most other commercially useful forages aren't native, never were native, and like cattle themselves originated somewhere else or were concocted in a lab. All this wasting dollars on eradication efforts is doing is defending one introduced forage from another introduced forage. There is a ton of research available that shows that the cost of gain on a lespedeza stand is LESS that just about anything else that is out there. True the newer varieties of lespedeza (serala, interstate, AU grazer, etc) are more palatable than the original sericea lespedeza and probably should be what is planted today; but unless you are in real dry country where the sericea is sucking up all the water with it's vastly superior root system and thus killing the grasses next to it I wouldn't lift a finger to get rid of it. Fescue, Bahia, bermudagrass, timothy, dallisgrass, etc all compete real well with sericea lespedeza and I have never seen sericea get so rank that cattle won't eat it by Christmas. Even Kudzu is a useful forage if you can keep adequate grazing pressure on it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brandonm22, post: 597591, member: 7645"] Sounds to me like piss poor management. If the forage gets ahead of the cattle, knock it down or add more cattle. Don't sit on the front porch sipping ice tea and let the stuff get five feet tall. This is Alabama. We have cattle grazing old strip mine land all over the place on nothing but Sericea lespedeza and Ky 31 fescue. Some cows wont work in that environment. Cull those cows and get rid of those bloodlines. That's a whole lot cheaper than plowing up the whole place. A lot of these show ponies just can't cut it in the real world. The whole concept of "invasive" plants is a bunch of bull. Fescue, Coastal bermuda,bahia, sericea lespedeza and most other commercially useful forages aren't native, never were native, and like cattle themselves originated somewhere else or were concocted in a lab. All this wasting dollars on eradication efforts is doing is defending one introduced forage from another introduced forage. There is a ton of research available that shows that the cost of gain on a lespedeza stand is LESS that just about anything else that is out there. True the newer varieties of lespedeza (serala, interstate, AU grazer, etc) are more palatable than the original sericea lespedeza and probably should be what is planted today; but unless you are in real dry country where the sericea is sucking up all the water with it's vastly superior root system and thus killing the grasses next to it I wouldn't lift a finger to get rid of it. Fescue, Bahia, bermudagrass, timothy, dallisgrass, etc all compete real well with sericea lespedeza and I have never seen sericea get so rank that cattle won't eat it by Christmas. Even Kudzu is a useful forage if you can keep adequate grazing pressure on it. [/QUOTE]
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