Completed Competitive Grant

Improving productivity of warm-season pastures by interseeding legumes

Project ID: 2001-35

Abstract

The dynamics of warm-season grass and legume plant communities are affected by grazing landscape and soil type. This project explored how these factors could be managed by western Iowa farmers to successfully establish higher-quality summer pastures comprised of warm-season grass/legume mixtures.

Key Question: Can the productivity of warm-grass pastures be improved by interseeding legumes?

Findings: The results suggest that in western Iowa, interseeding switchgrass or big bluestem pastures

Lead investigator: Ken Moore, ISU Agronomy, et al

Year of grant completion: 2004

This competitive grant project was part of the Leopold Center's Initiative.

Topics: Animal management and forage, Integrated crop-livestock systems and diversity

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