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<blockquote data-quote="Texasmark" data-source="post: 1581431" data-attributes="member: 27848"><p>50# per acre (drilled on a 7" spacing) puts the plants very close together which results in small stems and lots of leaves as the plants are competing for the sun and it's effects. Like the benefit of fertilizer vs none, results are pushing 10x the investment. My cows had a hard time making something out of stems especially when plant had matured to full, ripe, seed pods like some commercial growers offer for sale for whatever reason. </p><p></p><p>The other thing is planting a late maturing, brown rib, leafy variety like Gotcha Plus. If it wasn't a pain, I'd post pictures of a field I snapped in 2014 where the stems were about ⅜", height was over 8' (over the cab of my tractor), 2" wide leaves and zero even reached the "Boot" stage.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Texasmark, post: 1581431, member: 27848"] 50# per acre (drilled on a 7" spacing) puts the plants very close together which results in small stems and lots of leaves as the plants are competing for the sun and it's effects. Like the benefit of fertilizer vs none, results are pushing 10x the investment. My cows had a hard time making something out of stems especially when plant had matured to full, ripe, seed pods like some commercial growers offer for sale for whatever reason. The other thing is planting a late maturing, brown rib, leafy variety like Gotcha Plus. If it wasn't a pain, I'd post pictures of a field I snapped in 2014 where the stems were about ⅜", height was over 8' (over the cab of my tractor), 2" wide leaves and zero even reached the "Boot" stage. [/QUOTE]
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