Approaches toward sustainable forage-livestock systems: strip-planting a legume into a warm-season perennial grass pasture

摘要

Dsepite the demonstrated potential of rhizoma peanut his glabrata Benth. RP) for grazing in the eastern USA (Ortega-S. et al. 1992), high establish-cost and removal of land from production during bblishment have limited its use to primarily hay production systems. The premise of this experiment is strip-planting RP in existing bahiagrass (Paspalum mtahtm Flugge) pastures offers the opportunity to use ass forage during the legume establishment phase so that land need not be totally removed from grazing, while allowing successful establishment of the legume.