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<blockquote data-quote="Jogeephus" data-source="post: 1044341" data-attributes="member: 4362"><p>Don't know all the forages you can grow in Texas but if you are starting from scratch you might want to think about diversifying your forages based on their yields and the timing of the yield. Tift 85 is good stuff but like you say its a hungry plant and can break you on fertilizer if you over do it which is all the more reason you should plan your diversification. Here is some food for thought. Tift 85 will produce around 17000 lbs of highly nutritious forage in 4-5 months whereas Bahia will produce about the same of moderate quality forage but it takes it about 8-9 months to do so. Tift 85 has a bunch of dead space between each mother plant which provides a much better seed bed for other more cool weather forages so this gives you somewhere around 7 months that you can be growing something else.</p><p></p><p>Don't know if I'm explaining myself well but if you think about it I think you will see what I'm getting at.</p><p></p><p>BTW - with all the rain we've had I'm grazing around 3647/lbs of cattle per acre on some Tift 85 and it looks like I will still have to cut it for hay.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jogeephus, post: 1044341, member: 4362"] Don't know all the forages you can grow in Texas but if you are starting from scratch you might want to think about diversifying your forages based on their yields and the timing of the yield. Tift 85 is good stuff but like you say its a hungry plant and can break you on fertilizer if you over do it which is all the more reason you should plan your diversification. Here is some food for thought. Tift 85 will produce around 17000 lbs of highly nutritious forage in 4-5 months whereas Bahia will produce about the same of moderate quality forage but it takes it about 8-9 months to do so. Tift 85 has a bunch of dead space between each mother plant which provides a much better seed bed for other more cool weather forages so this gives you somewhere around 7 months that you can be growing something else. Don't know if I'm explaining myself well but if you think about it I think you will see what I'm getting at. BTW - with all the rain we've had I'm grazing around 3647/lbs of cattle per acre on some Tift 85 and it looks like I will still have to cut it for hay. [/QUOTE]
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