j-bird
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I went and took some photo's last night of my current switchgrass project and though I would share. My farm has a gross need for additioanl cover - to address this I enrolled some ground into CRP program, but the cover that came up naturally just didn't seem to hold the deer - So I contacted my NRCS folks and was given the green light to plant switchgrass (but I had to pay for it). Because of the expense of the seed and I had to pay someone to drill it for me I kept it on the small side. The "bare" photos are from when we planted in June last year. The "green" photos are from last night so right at a year later. The planting year I mowed the broadleaves once they got above the switch and thenI sprayed generic 24D later. I thought I had a failure the first year as the foxtail took over.
This is generally what the CRP looked like before I decided to improve it. It just wasn't holding deer or being an effective screen.
This is generally what the CRP looked like before I decided to improve it. It just wasn't holding deer or being an effective screen.