common crabgrass can be pretty good. the Red River variety is popular.
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Red River Crabgrass is a reseeding warm season annual grass released by the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation of Ardmore, Oklahoma. It is the first known proven crabgrass
variety and it provides for the first time, a crabgrass forage of known type and potential. It was a single plant selection in a naturalized stand. Red River Crabgrass combines
the characteristics of early forage development, total forage production, erect growth habit, stoloniferous spreading and forage quality. Red River Crabgrass has produced
over 12 times the yield of some lower producing ecotypes. It can readily be managed as an annually planted single or double-crop forage. It mixes very well with legumes and
summer grasses. Crabgrass palatability is exceptionally high and Red River Crabgrass has been consistently higher in chemical analysis quality compared to other Bermuda grass
and Sudan grass type forages. It lends itself to forage production where quality, palatability, natural reseeding, and double-cropping are major needed characteristics.
