permaculture

[Mark Ludwig <mpludwig@facstaff.wisc.edu>]

> Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 01:44:40 -0600
> From: Clay & Sue McQuiddy <mcquiddy@getgoin.net>
> Subject: Re: [grazersedge] Lost summer/pastures
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> Frank,
>
> I think you are confusing Cereal Rye and Ryegrass.   It's easy enough to do
> until you see the actual plant.   Then the difference is very clear.
>     Cereal Rye seed looks like wheat that is gray instead of brown.   The
> plant looks like wheat  also,  though courser.   Cereal Rye will go to seed
> much earlier in the spring than wheat,  and in my experience,   while cattle
> will readily eat seeded out wheat,  they won't eat headed out Rye.  I don't
> plant Rye anymore.
>     Ryegrass seed looks like grass seed,   small and fluffy.   Ryegrass
> comes in 3 different types,  annual,  biannual (Italian).  and perennial.
> For the climate that you and I live in,   there is no benefit that I have
> found to having a ryegrass that is a biannual.   The annual ryegrass seed is
> much cheaper than the biennials.    And I am not sold on the perennial
> ryegrass for here either.   Our summers are too hot and dry.
>
> Clay
>
> MO Ozarks
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <franksfarm@aol.com>
> To: <grazersedge@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 2:59 AM
> Subject: Re: [grazersedge] Lost summer/pastures
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>
> > By the way " Frontier" cereal rye was recommended to me by the county
> > extension agent. Yet the farm supply salesman who carries it, said he
> > wouldn't plant it again no way! Has anyone on the list used " Frontier"?
> Any
> > other suggestion for annual rye? I don't know much about the Italian ryes
> I
> > have seen touted. They seem expensive are they worth it? Any comments on
> best
> > varieties etc.?
> >
>
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