Rafter S
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There's a roughly 11 acre tract that joins my rent pasture. I've been running cattle on it for years in exchange for keeping it mowed. It recently sold and I met the new owner. This is in southern Grimes County. It's sand a foot or so deep, and then clay. It has a good stand of bahia grass, with a few goat weeds. He disced up the whole place, and told me he plans to plant bermuda grass (I think he said Jiggs, but it doesn't matter). I told him the bahia grass might give him some problems, but he said something like "Enough fertilizer will take care of that." Evidently he mistook the bahia for grassburs. Anyway, I didn't reply to that. I suspect he also hasn't seen how goat weeds likes disturbed soil.
I wish him the best of luck, but I'm afraid he's in for a rude awakening.
I wish him the best of luck, but I'm afraid he's in for a rude awakening.