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<blockquote data-quote="Warren Allison" data-source="post: 1778171" data-attributes="member: 40587"><p>16% is the protein content of the stems and roots. Leaves are 24% +. according to a USDA site. Years ago people did bale it with these little bitty round balers. Made rolls about 50 lbs. I never saw this done, so have no idea how they cut it. I have never seen any growing out on flat ground like a hayfield. Most of it I have seen is like ours... with old fences, old junk cars or equipment, remnants of buildings, etc, that it has grown over and covered up. I would never plant any myself on good ground, but if you had rough sorry ground and didn't want to clean it up, clear it out, and try to plant grass on it, then I'd let the Kudzu come on!. UGA has been experimenting with World Feder Bermuda (which was developed for grazing more so than hay) and a strain of Alfalfa also developed for grazing and suitable for warmer regions and is offering incentives for folks to try it. There is also a program...don;t know if it is federal or stae, where they wil pay for seeding or sprigging, and fertilizing, and taken out row cropping. The man I bought the Brahma herd for, who is keeping my Braunvieh/Brown Swiss for me, has put nearly 400 acres if soybean fields into this. He already had an irrigation system for the beans. There is another program he got that will pay for cross fencing (not perimeter fencing), so he is getting into this with nothing more than buying the cows!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Warren Allison, post: 1778171, member: 40587"] 16% is the protein content of the stems and roots. Leaves are 24% +. according to a USDA site. Years ago people did bale it with these little bitty round balers. Made rolls about 50 lbs. I never saw this done, so have no idea how they cut it. I have never seen any growing out on flat ground like a hayfield. Most of it I have seen is like ours... with old fences, old junk cars or equipment, remnants of buildings, etc, that it has grown over and covered up. I would never plant any myself on good ground, but if you had rough sorry ground and didn't want to clean it up, clear it out, and try to plant grass on it, then I'd let the Kudzu come on!. UGA has been experimenting with World Feder Bermuda (which was developed for grazing more so than hay) and a strain of Alfalfa also developed for grazing and suitable for warmer regions and is offering incentives for folks to try it. There is also a program...don;t know if it is federal or stae, where they wil pay for seeding or sprigging, and fertilizing, and taken out row cropping. The man I bought the Brahma herd for, who is keeping my Braunvieh/Brown Swiss for me, has put nearly 400 acres if soybean fields into this. He already had an irrigation system for the beans. There is another program he got that will pay for cross fencing (not perimeter fencing), so he is getting into this with nothing more than buying the cows! [/QUOTE]
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