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Tripsacum dactyloides, commonly called eastern gamagrass, [3] or Fakahatchee grass, is a warm-season, sod-forming bunch grass. [4] It is widespread in the Western Hemisphere, native from the eastern United States to northern South America. [ 5 ]
The grass is very tolerant of grazing and mowing. [3] A rhizomatous and stoloniferous species, [6] it spreads easily via vegetative reproduction. It also produces seeds, which can be spread in the dung of grazing cattle and remain viable in the soil. [3] Though it does not necessarily require fertilizer, the grass responds well to supplemental ...
Diagram of rotational grazing, showing the use of paddocks, each providing food and water for the livestock for a chosen period. In agriculture, rotational grazing, as opposed to continuous grazing, describes many systems of pasturing, whereby livestock are moved to portions of the pasture, called paddocks, while the other portions rest. [1]
Dairy cattle grazing in Germany. In agriculture, grazing is a method of animal husbandry whereby domestic livestock are allowed outdoors to free range (roam around) and consume wild vegetations in order to convert the otherwise indigestible (by human gut) cellulose within grass and other forages into meat, milk, wool and other animal products, often on land that is unsuitable for arable farming.
Most grazing animals tend to avoid barbed goatgrass because they do not like the taste of it, allowing the grass to take over the other grasses and grains consumed by the animals. [6] The barbs on the flower spikelets containing the seeds become attached easily to animal fur, human clothing, and vehicles which allows the seeds to become more ...
A bison mother and calf grazing on the prairie. Today, cattle, pronghorn and white-tailed deer are the most abundant mammals on the shortgrass prairie. Domestic cattle were placed in the prairie and have essentially replaced the native species that used to live in the shortgrass prairie such as bison and elk.
It is not considered important for cattle forage. Still it provides some livestock and wildlife grazing opportunities in spring and early summer. Small birds use broomsedge seeds in the winter when other food is limited. It is a larval host for Poanes zabulon, the Skipper butterfly. Andropogon virgincus can be used as an ornamental plant.
Farmers also highly prize the grass as pasture for stock. Native millet has moderate to high grazing value with 2.2–10.6% crude protein and considered relatively palatable by livestock. Due to its resistance to flooding, the grass is can produce high volumes of feed in floodplains after heavy rains or floods during the summer months. [1]
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