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- csl: white clover, hop clover; wsg: common bermudagrass (if it's already So I see OG as part of complex species mixture.
What about breeding OG for an environment such as ours. If we had a
breeder here, that would be my first suggestion for that person to
pursue. But it should be approached like Joe Bouton did for Alfagraze
and Georgia-5, i.e. selection under summer grazing stress for
persistence. I think there is probably untapped germplasm out there that
would have potential. When I was collecting fescues in hot, dry areas of
Spain a couple summers ago, I saw orchardgrasses hanging on in fairly
marginal environments. But it still wasn't nearly as commonly found as
endophyte-infected fescues (various species) in very stressed
environments. I don't know if someone in the South is already working
on breeding OG.
I welcome any feedback to my pasture philosophy. I'm referring mainly to
low-input beef production, but I suppose some of it would apply to
low-input dairy production as part of their diet.
Chuck West
Forage agronomist
Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville
cpwest@comp.uark.edu