Abstract
Livestock poisoning can occur on short-grass prairies when locoweeds are actively growing in spring before warm-season grasses begin growth. White locoweed grows in early spring, completes flowering and seed production by early summer, and goes dormant. Perennial cool-season grasses may provide competition to suppress locoweed or reduce its reestablishment following control. Furthermore, these grasses may provide alternative palatable forage to livestock early in the spring. The objective of this study was to suppress white locoweed reinvasion by seeding cool-season grasses at two mixed-grass and two short-grass prairie sites. White locoweed and associated species were controlled with glyphosate (1.1 kg ai/ha) and picloram (0.38 kg ae/ha) in 3 by 15 m plots. The plots were seeded to ‘CDII’ crested wheatgrass, ‘Vavilov’ Siberian wheatgrass, ‘Luna’ pubescent wheatgrass, ‘Bozoisky’ Russian wildrye, smooth brome, ‘NewHy’ wheatgrass, sideoats grama, and ‘Immigrant’ forage kochia. In addition, a native grass pl...
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