Using Planned Volunteer Crabgrass (Digitaria spp.) in Doublecropping with Cool Season Annual Forages
Publication Date
1997
Description
Crabgrass (Digitaria ciliaris Retz., D. sanguinalis (L.) Scop. and other species) is used as a real and planned forage. The major known use is in Oklahoma and about 19 other Southeast United States as a doublecropping or multicropping forage production approach whereby, crabgrass is the summer season forage and cool season annual grasses, with or without cool season legumes, are used as the winter season forage. High quality forage is thus produced up to over nine months of a year. Cereal rye (Secale cereale L.) and crabgrass doublecropping has produced up to over 10,000 pounds of grass per acre. Both winter and summer season forages can be utilized many different ways. This technique of grassland management is expanding into other areas and it is adaptable to subtropic, mild and temperate regions where rainfall is about 20 inches to over 60 inches per annum.
Citation
Dalrymple, R L., "Using Planned Volunteer Crabgrass (Digitaria spp.) in Doublecropping with Cool Season Annual Forages" (2024). IGC Proceedings (1997-2023). 35.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/igc/1997/session22/35
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Using Planned Volunteer Crabgrass (Digitaria spp.) in Doublecropping with Cool Season Annual Forages
Crabgrass (Digitaria ciliaris Retz., D. sanguinalis (L.) Scop. and other species) is used as a real and planned forage. The major known use is in Oklahoma and about 19 other Southeast United States as a doublecropping or multicropping forage production approach whereby, crabgrass is the summer season forage and cool season annual grasses, with or without cool season legumes, are used as the winter season forage. High quality forage is thus produced up to over nine months of a year. Cereal rye (Secale cereale L.) and crabgrass doublecropping has produced up to over 10,000 pounds of grass per acre. Both winter and summer season forages can be utilized many different ways. This technique of grassland management is expanding into other areas and it is adaptable to subtropic, mild and temperate regions where rainfall is about 20 inches to over 60 inches per annum.
