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["Marsha Hanzi" <hanzibra@svn.com.br>]

Hello Mike--

 

All are widely used as pasture plants here in Brazil.

 

Siratro is used more in the South ( the colder regions-- remember we are upside down..) .  Leucena requires better soils-- doesn´t like acid soils very much.  But it can survive in  dryland conditions, although in that case it gets very seedy with not much  foliage, and some people here complain that it gets weedy.  I think this ins only when it is not properly managed.

 

One plant I am really interested here is a fodder pigeon pea, much stockier and leafier than its  cousin which is normally planted, which is taller and spindly. Very good for  dryland polycultures, as it fills in the space and produces a lot of very highquality mass.  Leaf meal of  pigeon pea and lab lab ( and cassava and cowpea) are used here as foos auppllements for undernourished kids.

----- Original Message -----

From: Mike Skinner (Easy Hay)

To: permaculture

Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2000 9:14 PM

Subject: RE: Lab-Lab

Greeting, All,

     I once tracked down a Lab-Lab supplier in 1994,  Schuster Farms, in San Juan, Texas,

who specializes in wildlife and domestic forage seeds. They once sold Tecomate, a perennial

corn, but a recent letter said they had sold the Tecomante Trade Mark Label. Anyhow, the

Lab-Lab price is now quoted at $3 per pound. The letter says they “do intensive research on wildlife

habitat and nutrition mgmt, from native and natural browse to food plot forage seeds.” Furthermore,

they say they have an open book policy on info dissemination. 1 800 332-4054, schusterfarms@aol.com.,

www.schusterfarms.com.

 

The brochure says, “Lablab is an annual, warm season forage legume similar in appearance to cowpeas.

Lablab is the most drought tolerant plant avail. for annual food plots and more productive late in the growing

season than any other forage available.  Young growing leaves exceed 30% protein and have a 2:1 calcium to

phosphorus ratio, perfect for growing huge antlers during the peak period of antler growth.”

 

Another interesting plant: “Siratro Aztec is a perennial tropical legume as long as temperatures are above

25 degrees.  Siratro is heavily browsed by deer and quail relish the seed crop.”  $10 per pound.

 

And still: “Leucaena is a deep rooted leguminous shrub that contains 20-25% protein and is utilized by a variety of wildlife

and cattle.  $10 per pound.

 

If any are good, maybe we could get a group discount ???

 

Mike Skinner

Texas panhandle.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Pittman [mailto:pci@permaculture-inst.org]
Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2000 1:01 PM
To: permaculture
Subject: Re: Lab-Lab

 

At 05:35 PM 10/27/00 -0200, you wrote:

Hello Mike!

When I planted soybeans, I lived in a tropical mountain region, near the
Tropic of Capricorn  but at 1,000m. altitude.  Summers were quite hot, but
we had three or four frosts in winter.

The lab lab which is used here is  local, and I confess that I don´t know
its Scientific name-- it is not sold in the stores but only traded through
neighbors.  .

Marsha

Scientific name is Lablab purpureus, also Lablab niger both edible and native of tropical Africa.  There are a lot of cultivars.

Scott

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