Limited availability of herbage during the cool season creates a problem of a supply of nutrients for livestock producers throughout the southern Great Plains of the USA and, particularly, on small farms where resource constraints limit possible mitigating strategies. Six coolseason grasses were individually sown into clean-tilled ground, no-till drilled into stubble of Korean lespedeza [Kummer...

Tagasaste (tree lucerne) can be difficult to establish from seed due its hard coat and high levels of seedling mortality. Three experiments were performed. Experiment 1: Effect gibberellic acid, potassium nitrate, nicking + soaking in warm water (38oC for 24 hours), seeds boiling a coldwater control on germination. The highest germination percentage occurred the treatments. 2: slug bait, rhizob...

Fire occurs relatively frequently in beech (Nothofagus) forest in drought prone eastern areas of the South Island, New Zealand. Because beech is poorly adapted to fire, and is slow to regenerate, forest is normally replaced by scrub or grassland. Seeding was investigated as a means of restoring mountain beech (N. solandri var. cliffortioides) forest after fire destroyed 300 ha of forest at Mt. ...

Abstract Tree seedling establishment outside forest boundaries is controlled by many interacting factors. Understanding the relative importance of different pressures essential for improving techniques restoration and understanding potential to shift adapt changing climate conditions. We investigated constraints on spread a key southern hemisphere type into grasslands undertaking multifactorial...

This is a summary of the weather conditions in southeast Kansas during 2019/2020 growing season. The wet pattern that began 2019 continued into spring 2020, creating adverse for crop establishment. Dry dur­ing summer and fall limited pasture production. Temperatures were very near 10-year averages at each location.