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Tag: Diverse Native Grasslands

A Farmer’s Thoughts on Native Warm Season Grasses For Hay

Switchgrass is a Native Warm Season Grass that fixes nitrogen in an form that is accessible to other plants, without spending a dime on fertilizers

This Heat Loving Grass Makes Free Fertilizer

No Fertilizer Comparison: Switchgrass, Bottlebrush Grass, & Tall Fescue

How Native Grass Diversity Creates Quail Nesting Habitat

Rex Hamilton, the founder of Hamilton Native Outpost and now passed, gives his experience of and the introduction of fescue into Missouri, and it's disadvantages.

Why Did Fescue Replace Native Plants?

Managing a First Year Planting

Why I Use Native Forbs In My Winter Stockpile

Stockpiled Native Cool Season Grasses in a Eastern Gama Grass Field

-5 Degrees and This Sedge is still Green Forage!

Native Winter Forage: Cool Season Overseeding into a Big Bluestem Field

Native Warm Season Grasses and NO Fertilizer!

Grazing Silphiums

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