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[M5farms]

I love Bahia but not in my Bermuda . I have way more Bahia in pastures than Bermuda and will strive to keep it that way . Its greens early cows will eat it first makes good hay but like Txjim says it is a nuisance in Bermuda if your trying to produce a consistent product. the horse folks here want a Bahia free roll and if I can produce that and have extra I can offset my production cost sooner and with less hay. You will also never get the Protein in Bahia that you can from Bermuda, And even though its a bermuda is shorter growing window it will produce more tonnage in shorter time . Bermuda is optimal if cut every 28 to 30 days

 

[Texasmark]

From my personal observation if Bahia is left uncontrolled in a field of Coastal Bermuda for a long enough number of yrs you will have a very small % of Bermuda because the Bahia will choke it out. I dislike Bahia because once it's cut it will turn darker in the bale than Coastal PLUS on the fields I've baled I think Bahia will not produce the same tonnage per acre as Coastal Bermuda.

"....darker in the bale...." meaning it turns brown and doesn't maintain the "green" that horse nuts think their horses need...chlorophyll....necessary for plant growth reactions with the sun; but bleached out by the sun once the plant is dead and serves no useful purpose in terms of nutrition?

Does it maintain that fresh hay smell even if it looses some of the green?

On volume, I have a small patch that has developed on it's own, on the edge of a bar-ditch and is very thick. The leafy part is in no way a comparison for Coastal; totally agree on that. However, that patch has never been fed so I don't know what the leaf parts of the plant would do under the nutritional attention I pay to my Coastal patch. I guess I'll find out when it over takes me and gets fed.

Thanks for the comments, Jim.

 

[M5farms]

good luck with the sales. and please share how you get rid of-of Bahia? thankyou

What I did on Bahia is on page one , manor herbicide , I sold all the extra hay I had this year without any issues. The pnut hay crop was hindered with untimely rain so folks started scrambling for grass hay.