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Since the 1950s and early 1960s, 90% of Kentucky bluegrass seed in the United States has been produced on specialist farms in Idaho, Oregon and Washington. During the 1990s [ citation needed ] botanists began experimenting with hybrids of Poa pratensis and Texas bluegrass ( P. arachnifera ), with the goal of creating a drought and heat ...
Poa trivialis (rough meadow-grass), showing the ligule structure. Poa [2] is a genus of about 570 species of grasses, native to the temperate regions of both hemispheres. Common names include meadow-grass (mainly in Europe and Asia), bluegrass (mainly in North America), tussock (some New Zealand species), and speargrass. Poa is Greek for 'fodder'.
Poa arachnifera, the Texas bluegrass, is a species of grass. It is a dioecious perennial plant, native to the southern Great Plains of the United States . [ 1 ]
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1924 - Henry Wallace begins selling 'Copper Cross', an early commercial hybrid seed corn. 1926 - Hi-Bred Corn Company is founded in Des Moines, Iowa, with $7,000 in capital. [7] 1931 - Roswell Garst agrees to produce/distribute seed. The following year Garst partners with Charles Thomas to form the Garst and Thomas Seed Corn Company.
Before European-American settlement, various cultures of Indigenous peoples of the Americas lived in the region. The pre-colonization state of the Bluegrass is poorly known, but it is thought to have been a type of savannah known as oak savanna, with open grassland containing clover, giant river cane (a type of bamboo), and scattered enormous trees, primarily bur oak, blue ash, Shumard's oak ...
Annual bluegrass weevils were first discovered in Connecticut in 1931. They spread slowly at first, contained mostly to New York, New Jersey, and much of New England until after the 1970s, when they were seen in Pennsylvania. It was not until the 2000s, however, that they began to rapidly spread throughout the Mid-Atlantic and into the Midwest. [1]