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Cynodon dactylon, commonly known as Bermuda grass, also known as couch grass in Australia and New Zealand, is a grass found worldwide. It is native to Europe , Africa , Australia and much of Asia .
Tifton 85, like some other grasses (e.g. sorghum), produce cyanide salts under certain conditions and have been implicated in livestock deaths due to a condition commonly known as 'bloat', or 'Prussic Acid Poisoning'. In June 2012 15 head of cattle in Bastrop County, Texas (near Austin) died from consumption of Tifton 85. Before this event the ...
Cynodon nlemfuensis, the African Bermuda-grass, is a species of grass, genus Cynodon, family Poaceae. [2] [3] It is native to Tropical Africa except West Africa, and widely introduced as a forage elsewhere; Hawaii, Texas, Florida, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, the Galápagos, South America, western and southern Africa, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, the Philippines and Australia. [1]
Pennington County is a county in the U.S. state of South Dakota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 109,222, [1] making it the second most populous county in South Dakota. Its county seat is Rapid City. [2] The county was created in 1875, and was organized in 1877. [3]
The adjacent western provinces and northern US states are similar, so the use of corn as cattle feed has been limited at these northern latitudes. As a result, few cattle are raised on corn as a feed. The majority are raised on grass and finished on cold-tolerant grains such as barley. [61] This has become a marketing feature of the beef. [9]
Flowering big bluestem, a characteristic tallgrass prairie plant. The tallgrass prairie is an ecosystem native to central North America.Historically, natural and anthropogenic fire, as well as grazing by large mammals (primarily bison) provided periodic disturbances to these ecosystems, limiting the encroachment of trees, recycling soil nutrients, and facilitating seed dispersal and germination.
Rapid City is a city in South Dakota, United States, and the county seat of Pennington County. [10] It is the second most populous city in the state, after Sioux Falls.It is located on the eastern slope of the Black Hills in western South Dakota and was named after Rapid Creek, where the settlement developed.
The Rapid City Historic Commercial District, sometimes called the Rapid City Downtown Historic District, is a 21-acre (8.5 ha), multi-block historic district in downtown Rapid City, South Dakota, United States. It includes 47 commercial buildings dating from the late 19th to early 20th centuries that formed the core of Rapid City's early economy.