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Ga Hillbilly, I'm pretty close to you. 100 miles due south of ATL, about 50 miles east of Columbus. A lifetime of row crop farming has convinced me that common Bermuda is about the most resilient grass there is. In rowcrops it is a noxious weed. Anything you do to it short of a gallon of roundup per acre just stimulates it. If you turn it under, that is just like fertilizing it. Try to plow a crop with it in it, and you scatter it all over the field. For this reason, I consider it a great fairly low input grass for grazing. Not necessarily for hay. I have planted about 20 acres of common since 2016. I use raw, hulled seed. I mix With fertilizer in a cone type spreader. I try to put about 10 pounds of the hulled seed per acre. I prep by scratching up the soil surface with a disc harrow. I spread the seed/fertilizer mix, then pull a drag made of old tires over it. I have had pretty good success with this. The seed has nearly doubled in price since I started doing this. The cheapest I have found hulled, raw seed this tear is near $400 for 50 pounds.
About 25 years ago I planted 100 acres of corn. I plowed down, with a bottom plow, about 3000 pounds of chicken manure. I applied an additional 70 units of nitrogen, and irrigated with a cable tow rig. I made nearly 200 bushels of corn per acre, but in the spots where common Bermuda was,the grass got near knee high. It does respond to water and fertilizer.
About 25 years ago I planted 100 acres of corn. I plowed down, with a bottom plow, about 3000 pounds of chicken manure. I applied an additional 70 units of nitrogen, and irrigated with a cable tow rig. I made nearly 200 bushels of corn per acre, but in the spots where common Bermuda was,the grass got near knee high. It does respond to water and fertilizer.
