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    best summer grass seed when mid central Texas

    I found a lot more of the same grass, 10 minutes ago. 2 1/2 years ago I got some Coastal from my job site with a shovel and manually worked it to the soil then watered it didn’t think I did any good but seems to be exploding everywhere now actually getting my Bermuda Pasture I been trying for...
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    best summer grass seed when mid central Texas

    I see what might be Bermuda can yall tell me what grass this is. Everything still real soggy over here in Texas just south east of Waco. By about 40 miles.
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    best summer grass seed when mid central Texas

    my pasture ought be very rich with fertilizer scientifically balanced by Texas A&Ms report. I hit the pasture once november with 19-19-19 and again with 19-19-19 with wrangler Bermuda seed 5 weeks ago kinda glad I just broadcasted it instead of paying for a no till drill, because no matter...
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    best summer grass seed when mid central Texas

    Hi everybody, thank you all for chiming in trying to help. I did plant the rye, it did grow well and 9 head of cattle can not even make a dent in the 10 acres (may be less acres than that) one of the heifers is a show heifer and has actually got better looking on that rye then being on fed in...
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    best summer grass seed when mid central Texas

    i grew up about 20 miles or less a way. Same sand, same grit, same plants everywhere. This was in the late 70s, we took sample of soil to Texas A&M then used that mix of fertilizer. After that we kept everything mowed short. after a bout a year, the coastal Bermuda got to be so thick and lush...
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    best summer grass seed when mid central Texas

    I'll take all the help I can get. I found the soil sample forms and know where to send them now. Gathering the samples this weekend, and put my glasses on to read the directions on the form the garbage grass, appears to be Bahia grass, I figure, if it could keep feed a cow or 2 but not a lot...
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    best summer grass seed when mid central Texas

    Did the maverick spread and spider out like coastal?, is the seed a hybrid sterile?
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    best summer grass seed when mid central Texas

    and I tried expensive as hell crimson clover in a few areas. it was a dud, some growth not much. the test results on that soil will be interesting. The land has not been farmed or ranched in (I am guessing by the stories and the fencing) 50 years or more
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    best summer grass seed when mid central Texas

    I am taking that soil to the ag extension office and getting it tested. Now I did try some small test plots of oats last winter (had to work them in to the ground) Wish I tried in in the pasture. I planted them in the new cleared areas, the oats when nits , grew very well with no help
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    best summer grass seed when mid central Texas

    here are some photos taken in the winter, this is the way it looks if I mow once or twice over the fall/winter, Maybe yall can tell me what specie of "grass" or weed that is? will it reasonable feed cattle ?
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    best summer grass seed when mid central Texas

    Hi everybody, brand new here. I bought a 40 acre tract with about half open pastures. The grass on it is garbage, I seen people on my road try to raise cattle with that same foliage and the cows look boney and bloated eating off that native option of grasses (more like weeds).. Then, I see some...
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