Choose tropical grasses wisely - seek good advice

By Bob Freebairn
April 5 2021 - 5:00am
A failed Rhodes grass pasture, a consequence of the past drought and a variety far less drought hardy in the northern slopes environment than Premier digit grass. Broadleaf weed fleabane now dominates the pasture.
A failed Rhodes grass pasture, a consequence of the past drought and a variety far less drought hardy in the northern slopes environment than Premier digit grass. Broadleaf weed fleabane now dominates the pasture.

A TOTAL loss of a tropical grass pasture in a 600 millimetre average annual rainfall central/north west light soil paddock, as a consequence of the 2017 to early 2020 drought, might not seem unusual.

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