Cool Season Annual and Perennial Grass Forages for California – a New Perspective
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There is an increase in awareness of the benefits of grass hay from an agronomic and nutritional perspective. The main cool season forage grass species adaptable to California are annual ryegrass, Italian ryegrass, perennial ryegrass, orchard grass and tall fescue. The main characteristics of these species along with attributes of different varieties are highlighted in this paper. The agronomic and nutritional benefits of softleaf tall fescue provide a new resource to the producers to obtain high quality grass hay.
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California native and exotic perennial grasses differ in their response to soil nitrogen, exotic annual grass density, and order of emergence Citation
49 Early emergence of plant seedlings can offer strong competitive advantages over 50 later-germinating neighbors through the preemption of limiting resources. This 51 phenomenon may have contributed to the persistent dominance of European annual 52 grasses over native perennial grasses in California grasslands, since the former 53 species typically germinate earlier in the growing season than ...
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