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Sod is grown on specialist farms. For 2009, the United States Department of Agriculture reported 1,412 farms had 368,188 acres (149,000.4 ha) of sod in production. [9]It is usually grown locally (within 100 miles of the target market) [10] to minimize both the cost of transport and also the risk of damage to the product.
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'.
Tussock grasses or bunch grasses are a group of grass species in the family Poaceae. They usually grow as singular plants in clumps, tufts, hummocks, or bunches, rather than forming a sod or lawn, in meadows, grasslands, and prairies. As perennial plants, most species live more than one season.
Nolina texana, the Texas sacahuiste or Texas beargrass, is a plant in the asparagus family that resembles a large clump of grass. It grows in the south central United States and Northern Mexico. It grows in the south central United States and Northern Mexico.
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A sod farm structure in Iceland Saskatchewan sod house, circa 1900 Unusually well appointed interior of a sod house, North Dakota, 1937. The sod house or soddy [1] was a common alternative to the log cabin during frontier settlement of the Great Plains of Canada and the United States in the 1800s and early 1900s. [2]
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They are usually not maintained by the municipality, but rather by the property owner, and are used primarily to provide space for utility poles. A road verge is a strip of groundcover consisting of grass or garden plants , and sometimes also shrubs and trees , located between a roadway and a sidewalk . [ 1 ]