for my southern friends

[seedcorn]

Might look at Golden Sunn Hemp. University of Alabama is working on it. Thrives in hot dry weather. They are developing it for a pasture crop on sand.

Might inform local authorities as it is a hemp.

 

[Ridgerunner]

Seed, you just made a lot of people mad in the state of Alabama. Auburn is the university working on it, not the University of Alabama. As many southerners know, there is a bit of a rivalry between the two.

From what I read, it's being considered as a summer green cover crop, not pasture. Hemp is a tropical crop so you normally have to buy seeds, but this variety will grow in the summer in the south and produce seeds, a potential money saver. That variety doesn't grow as tall and as woody as other varieties of hemp so it's easier to turn under, especially if you don't have huge farm equipment. It's a legume so it will set nitrogen, from what I read, it does a decent job of that. Not all legumes do. I imagine you'd need to treat it with an inoculant the first time you plant it so it will set nitrogen, but that's just my guess about the inoculant, I didn't read that.


When I first opened this I was going to tease you about trying to get your southern "friends" in trouble with local law officials, but there is no need. Auburn versus Alabama says it all.

 

[digitS']

11 genera, including Cannabis (hemp, marijuana), Humulus (hops) and Celtis (hackberries).

Not a legume (just shrouded in illegality) ... from Wikipedia:

Well-known members of Rosales include: roses, strawberries, blackberries and raspberries, apples and pears, plums, peaches and apricots, almonds, rowan and hawthorn, jujube, elms, banyans, figs, mulberries, breadfruit, nettles, hops, and cannabis.

The Fabaceae, Leguminosae or Papilionaceae, commonly known as the legume, pea, or bean family ...
A number are important agricultural and food plants, including Glycine max (soybean), Phaseolus (beans), Pisum sativum (pea), Cicer arietinum (chickpeas), Medicago sativa (alfalfa), Arachis hypogaea (peanut), Lathyrus odoratus (sweet pea), Ceratonia siliqua (carob), and Glycyrrhiza glabra (liquorice). A number of species are also weedy pests in different parts of the world, including: Cytisus scoparius (broom), Robinia pseudoacacia (black locust), Ulex europaeus (gorse), Pueraria lobata(kudzu), and a number of Lupinus species.


Steve

 

[seedcorn]

@Ridgerunner Speaker I am listening to (from Ohio) credited UA. He is using it as a cover crop, turned calves into field. Had great results with calves.

Thanks for info. It is from Africa where he got his seed. There it is grown in pure sand and fed.

What I found funny, he planted along a state highway. When it got tall, he went out with shovel to dig to see root and modulation. Once he was in field, about 8 local, state police came wheeling in. Thought he was growing it to smoke.

 

[ninnymary]

Hemp is in the same family but not the same at all.

Seed, when I read your post title, I wasn't sure if I was part of that group.

Mary

 

[Ridgerunner]

Steve, I'm having lot of trouble even posting a link to the article, let alone do a cut and paste with the text. You might try going to this search and opening the top article.

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=Golden+Sunn+Hemp+auburn&*

The article clearly says crotalaria juncea L. is a legume.


Seed, the land grant universities in Alabama are Alabama A&M, Auburn, and Tuskegee. Alabama doesn't make the list. In Indiana the land grant university is Purdue, not Indiana. As you probably know this type of stuff is usually done at a land grant university. That's one of the things that made me want to go look it up, it just didn't sound right. But I'm often curious when someone posts something like that, it's always fun to learn something, even if I'll forget it in a few minutes.

 

[seedcorn]

@Ridgerunner No doubt u r correct. Just repeating what speaker said.

Appreciate all info. Does UA have a genetics department? Will go to Auburn site to see what they are doing.

@ninnymary You have adopted yourself out to southerners so of course it applies to you. Now turn your back yard into a cow pasture.... let us know how that flies.

 

[ninnymary]

@Ridgerunner No doubt u r correct. Just repeating what speaker said.

Appreciate all info. Does UA have a genetics department? Will go to Auburn site to see what they are doing.

@ninnymary You have adopted yourself out to southerners so of course it applies to you. Now turn your back yard into a cow pasture.... let us know how that flies.

I'll get right on it!

Mary

 

[Nyboy]

Mary I think there is a Dexter mini cow prefect for city cow pasture

 

[digitS']

Hemp is in the same family but not the same at all.

Seed, when I read your post title, I wasn't sure if I was part of that group.

Mary

Wait tho!!

@Ridgerunner is right! Crotalaria juncea is Golden Sunn Hemp.

I thought "Golden Sunn" was just a variety name! Not so. Reminds me of toadflax.

Steve