EC Certified Perennial Grass Varieties Recommended for Nebraska

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1 Univerity of Nebraka - Lincoln DigitalCommon@Univerity of Nebraka - Lincoln Hitorical Material from Univerity of Nebraka- Lincoln Extenion Extenion 1990 EC Certified Perennial Gra Varietie Recommended for Nebraka Bruce E. Anderon Univerity of Nebraka-Lincoln, banderon1@unl.edu Ken Hladek Roger Kanable Follow thi and additional work at: Anderon, Bruce E.; Hladek, Ken; and Kanable, Roger, "EC Certified Perennial Gra Varietie Recommended for Nebraka" (1990). Hitorical Material from Univerity of Nebraka-Lincoln Extenion Thi Article i brought to you for free and open acce by the Extenion at DigitalCommon@Univerity of Nebraka - Lincoln. It ha been accepted for incluion in Hitorical Material from Univerity of Nebraka-Lincoln Extenion by an authorized adminitrator of DigitalCommon@Univerity of Nebraka - Lincoln.

2 Nebraka Cooperative Extenion EC UNIVERSfiY OF NEBR. I ''.:l!:l "~ r:-~ C t r d P. 1 G V: )1~Y o er 1 1e erenn1a ra arietie RecoiTIInended for Nebraka Bruce Anderon, Extenion Forage Specialit Ken Hladek, State Range Conervationit, U.S. Soil Conervation Service Roger Kanable, State Conervation Agronomit, U.S. Soil Conervation Service More than 100 pecie of perennial grae are adapted to and grown in Nebraka. They are claified a either "cooleaon" or "warm-eaon" grae. Cool-eaon grae grow rapidly during pring, often uing mot of the readily available oil moiture and nitrogen. They are nearly dormant during ummer. Regrowth in late ummer and fall occur a cool temperature and oil moiture return. Often they remain partly green throughout winter but will not grow until frot become le frequent and le evere. Warm-eaon grae begin low growth about one month later than cool-eaon grae. Growth i rapid in late pring and early ummer a thee grae make efficient ue of available oil moiture and nutrient. Growth generally ceae by late ummer or early fall although live, green tiue uually remain until a hard freeze kill all top growth. Full eaon pature program uually benefit from having eparate pature of warm-eaon grae and cool-eaon grae. Both tocking rate and average daily gain can be increaed 25 percent by grazing cool-eaon grae in pring and fall and warm-eaon grae in ummer compared to grazing jut one type of gra the entire growing eaon. Mixture containing cool- and warm-eaon grae in the ame pature uually are impractical, except for certain range planting. Good grazing management i difficult becaue livetock will electively overgraze certain grae while nearly avoiding other grae. In addition, an uneven ditribution of rainfall during the eaon will encourage growth of certain grae while weakening other grae. Advantage of Recommended Varietie The election of adapted varietie can be jut a critical to a ucceful eeding a the pecie choice. About 25 gra pecie in Nebraka are known to have characteritic that make them valuable enough to develop improved varietie for new eeding. Thee pecie grow over broad geographic area and have divere genetic trait that help individual plant adapt to pecific oil and ite condition. Varietie of thee pecie have been developed to perform ignificantly better in their adapted area than other varietie or natural wild train. Adapted varietie are predictably uperior in vigor, production, peritance, and reitance to inect and dieae within their area of adaptation. Importance of Uing Certified Seed Planting certified eed aure the genetic purity and eed quality deignated on the eed tag. Certified eed i planted, grown, harveted, proceed, and marketed following trict tandard. Inpection during production and proceing help aure that thee tandard have been met. Only eed that meet thee tandard may carry the certified eed label. Planting eed of quetionable or unknown origin and performance i a gamble that mot people cannot afford. Uing the Map and Table The following map, Major Land Reource Area ForSelecting Adapted Gra Varietie, depict 16 region within the tate. The table, Varietie of Grae for Ue in Major Land Reource Area of Nebraka, how which gra varietie are bet adapted to different ite in each region. After identifying the region on the map, ue the table to elect an appropriate gra variety for your ite. (Site are further decribed in Footnote 2 of the table.) Gra varietie are lited alphabetically under two ubheading: Warm-eaon and Cool-eaon Grae. Iued in furtherance of Cooperative Extenion work, Act of May 8 and June 30, 1914, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Leo E. Luca, Director of Cooperative Extenion, Univerity of Nebraka, Intitute of Agriculture and Natural Reource. Cooperative Extenion provide information and educ ational program to all people without regard t o race, color, national origin, ex or handicap.

3 Major Land Reource Area for Selecting Adapted Gra Varietie CHERRY 65W BROWN HOOKER THOMAS BLAINE MCPHERSON LOGAN 71 PERKINS DAWSON BUFFAFLO CHASE DUNDV Legend ( [ 60A Pierre Shale Plain and Badland 638 Southern Rolling Pierre Shale Plain 64 Mixed Sandy and Silty Tableland 65E & W Nebraka Sandhill 66 Dakota-Nebraka Eroded Tableland 67 Central High Plain 71 Central Nebraka Loe Hill I 1028 I 106 Central High Tableland Rolling Plain and Break Central Loe Plain I Loe Upland and Till Plain I Nebraka and Kana Loe Drift Hill 11 07N & S I Iowa and Miouri Deep Loe Hill

4 ~~ - --~ -- Varietie 1 of Grae for Ue in Major Land Reource Area 2 of Nebraka Kind of gra Panhandle Southwet Wetern Eatern North South and certified variety 60A, 72,73W SandhiU Sand hill Central Central Central Northeat Southeat 64,67 65W 65E 63B, E, B, 107N 106,107S Cool-eaon Grae Creeping Foxtail Garrion biwa biwa biwa BIWa BIWa BIWa biwa BIWa biwa Retain biwa biwa biwa BIWa BIWa BIWa biwa BIWa biwa Creted Wheatgra Fairway hb Hycret HB hb hb hb hb hb Nordan HB hb hb hb Ruff hb hb hb hb hb hb hb ~- Intermediate Wheatgra Amur HBI HBI HBI Clarke HBI HBI HBI HBI HS BI HBI HBI HS bi HS bi Nebr. 50 HBI hbi HBI HBI Oahe HBI HBI HBI Slate HBI HBI HBI HBI HSBI HBI HBI Hi HS bi - _, Meadow Brome Regar bi bi bi BI BI HBI HSBI Orchard gra 75 73E Both Comet Iw Blw Iw B b Iw HBI HSBI La tar Iw Biw Iw B b Iw HBI HSBI Napier I Iw I I hbiw lw B b lw HBI HSBI Potomac iw b i w iw b b iw Sterling I Iw I I hbiw Iw B b Iw HBI HSBI Pubecent Wheatgra Luna HBi HBi HBi Mandan HBi HBi HBi Topar HS B i HBi HBi HBi

5 Reed Canarygra Ioreed iw iw lw iw h bi w iw w h bi w w Palaton iw iw iw iw W iw W hbiw hbiw Rie iw iw iw iw w lw w w h bi w Vantage iw iw iw iw w iw w h bi w w Venture iw iw iw iw h biw iw W hbiw hbiw Smooth Brome Achenbach HSBI Lincoln I bi bi HB I HBI HBI HSBI HSBI HSBI Lyon I bi bi HB I HBI HBI HSBI HSBI HSBI Rebound I I bl HB I HBI HB I HSBI HSBI HSBI Tall Fecue 3 Alta i i Forager i i Kenhy bi HB i Ky-31 bi Mo-96 i i Tall Wheatgra Alkar biw A biwa biw A biw A biw A biw A w A w A w A Joe biw A biw A biw A biw A biw A biw A h bi w A w A w A Platte biw A biw A biw A biw A biw A biw A h bi w A w A w A Thickpike Wheatgra Critana hb hb hb Wetern Wheatgra Arriba a a Barton a a a wa wa wa wa a a Flintlock wa wa wa a a a a a a Roana a a 1 Adapted varietie may be available (epecially of mooth brome and orchardgra) that are not lited here becaue of limited information. 2 Land reource area are hown and identified by tlle accompanying map. Select varietie for ue in each region and reource area a decribed below: H = hardland, S = and, B = bottomland (moderately and omewhat poorly drained oil), I = irrigated, W =poorly and very poorly drained oil, A= alkali and aline. (Uppercae letter deignate varietie preferred for ue a forage. Lower cae letter indicate varietie adapted to the ite for conervation, wildlife, and other ue.) 3 Ue endophyte (fungu) - free tall fecue eed only if any forage ue i poible.

6 ~~ "\.~\ ~ '-.J \:.)-.' "" '\ Varietie 1 of Grae for Ue in Major Land Reource Area 2 of Nebraka (Continued) Kind of gra Panhandle Southwet Wetern Eatern North South and certified variety 60A, 72,73W Sandhill Sand hill Central Central Central Northeat Southeat 64,67 65W 6SE 63B, E, B, 107N 106, 107S Warm-eaon Grae Big Bluetem Bonilla hb i Champ 4 Bi hsbi HS Bi HS B i HS B i h h hb Kaw hb i hb i HS B i Pawnee HBi HBi HS Bi HS Bi HS B i Rountree bi h bi HBi u Blue Grama Hachita hb hb hb hb hb hb hb hb hb Lovington hb h b hb hb hb hb hb h b hb Buffalogra Sharp' Improved hb hb hb hb hb hb hb Texoka hb hb hb hb hb hb hb " ~ ~ - -- Eatern Gamagra Peat hbiw hbiw Indian gra Cheyenne b i w b i w Holt biw biw hbiw w HSB i w Nebraka 54 Biw bi w b i w w HS Biw w w Oage Oto bi w w Rumey h bi w HSB i w Little Bluetem Aldou b hb HSB hb hb Blaze b hb SB hb hb hb Camper b hb b b HSB HSB hb hb hb Cimarron HSB HSB HSB HSB hb hb Prairie Sandreed Gohen h h h hb hb hb Pronghorn h h hsb h h h

7 ( ( Sand bluetem Champ 4 Garden Gold trike Bi hsbi h h hb Sand Lovegra Bend Nebraka 27 b i b i b i h b i hi b i h b i b i h b i h b i h b i Sideoat Grama Butte ElReno Pierre Trail way bi Hb i Hb i,, - H- b-i ;;, _ >.' ; ~~ ha Switchgra Blackwell Cave-in-Rock Foretburg Kanlow Nebraka 28 Pathfinder Summer Sunburt Trailblazer w b i w HBiw hbiw w a a a a a wa h hi w w a. ' ~~ <. ~)~~,. h b 1 w a h ~~:t w a 'l ' HBiw a biwa biwa a a a a a a a a wa wa wa