Took some plugs from local seed collected last year to fill in where some ditches are starting to form. Stagger planted these to slow the flow of water coming off the hill as some ditches are cutting pretty bad from this years rains. I'll be back up in a couple weeks to collect more remnant seeds from the county to save genotypes. The few scattered plants are starting to disappear in the few places I've found them still. Cattle kill it out since they're not rotational grazed on a lot of farms back there.
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Eastern gamagrass
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Think this is similar to Big Bluestem or Turkey foot. Have a lot of it in my hay fields along with Little Bluestem. Think it spreads through root system roots go up to 10ft deep from what I have read. Really cool looking when it stems out with seed heads. Also turns reddish in the fall. Have few areas I don't cut just let grow. Tolerates spring burn very well.
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Out of all WSG I think gama is by far the best cattle feed. I would rather have brome or alfalfa, but gama mixed in every few bales isn't too bad. Yes, get it cut before it gets too stemmy.
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Just like corn in that aspect.
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My 1st cutting that I won’t get to for about 3 weeks is probably about 55”. 
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