Fodder grasses

The indigenous grasses of the Americas are numerous and diverse. This tremendous variety was largely supplanted by aggressive European fodder grasses during the colonial era, a transition that was only later followed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by the estabhshment of lawn grasses, nearly all of which are also from outside the Americas. 

Sainfoin (Onobrychis sativa Lam. or 0. viciaefolia Scop.) honey is golden yellow and has an exceedingly pleasant aroma and flavor. It is produced from the nectar of the pink or red blossoms of the perennial fodder grass sainfoin, which grows wildly in Siberia and the Ukraine. 

Plant breeding On farm, criteria seed size and appearance New seed material new fodder grasses. Limited use of own seed Promotion of hybrid seeds both from within and outside the country Limited use of own seed by the resource poor farmers Promotion of hybrid seeds both from within and outside the country. Limited efforts by farmers to raise their own seeds. Continued use of own seed by the resource poor farmers... 

Monocotyledoneae A class of flowering plants (seeANTHOPHYTA), distinguished by having one seed leaf ( cotyledon) within the seed. The monocotyledons generally have parallel leaf veins, scattered vascular bundles within the stems, and flower parts in threes or multiples of three. Monocotyledon species include some crop plants (e.g. cereals, onions, fodder grasses), ornamentals (e.g. tulips, orchids, lilies), and a very limited number of trees (e.g. the palms). Compare Dicotyledoneae eudicot. 

Permissible tolerances for atrazine range from 0.02 mg/kg in meat, milk, and eggs, to 15 mg/kg in orchard grass forage, fodder, and hay (Reed 1982 USEPA 1983). However, the 15 mg/kg tolerance in forage is considered high, and a new upper limit of 4 mg/kg is proposed. This limit would be expressed in terms of atrazine and three major metabolites (Reed 1982 USEPA 1983) ... 

Hay (Foin in French). Cured grass usually used as animal fodder and in ... 

Uses herbicide to control post-emergent wild oats, wild millets, and other annual grass weeds in wheat, barley, rye, red fescue, and broadleaf weeds in crops such as soybeans, sugar cane, fodder beet, flax, legumes, oilseed rape, sunflowers, clover, lucerne, groundnuts, brassicas, carrots, celery, beet root, parsnips, lettuce, spinach, potatoes, tomatoes, fennel, alliums, herbs, etc. 

A fodder to be used as a substitute for oats is described, being prepared by mixing quantities of rye, barley, oats, maize, potatoes, rice, grass, clover, malt germs, food potatoes, topinambur (Helianthus tuberosus), horse chestnuts, straw, dried beet, linseed cake, and rape cake. 

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