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Description: Switchgrass pasture, <5% legume.
Percent of Total Growth by Month
Jan
Feb
Mar
Yield Adjustments:
Alfalfa Clover, red Corn silage Leg.-grass" Switchgrass Tall fescue
or Ladmo /Sorahum /Bia bluestem
Percent of Maximum Probable Yield
Soil Fertility Level - P & K only.
V low 27
Low 45
Medium 60
High 80
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17 Cool season legume and grass mixture Either alfalfa or red clover is the legume
One of these grasses is used; Bromegrass, orchardgrass, perennial ryegrass, timothy,
or tall fescue.
27 This suitability group is well supplied with potassium It is outside the range of this
category
FORAGE SUITABILITY GROUP
Deep, channery, well drained, strongly acid, moderately steep upland soils
Alfalfa Clover, red Corn silage Leg -grass Switchgrass Tall fescue
or Ladmo /Sorghum /Bio bluestem
Percent of Maximum Probable Yield
Surface soil pH Adjustment
<4,5* 10
4.5 30
5 0 40
5.5 62
6 0 86
6.5 98
7 0 100
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Frost Heaving Potential Adjustment
Dec
Nov
Low 100 100 100 100 100 100
Mod. 80 90 100 90 100 100
High 30 50 100 60 100 100
31 pH adapted legume and tall cool season grass combination. Red clover at lower pH
41 Values in this row are extrapolated estimates and seeding failure likely on legumes
Soil Limitations: Primary soil limitation for this group is the acidic nature of the
surface and subsurface soil layers These soils may be near neutral to strongly acid,
depending on whether or not these soils have been limed in the past. If lime has been
applied to bring the pH up to at least 6 0, then Kentucky bluegrass, bromegrass,
orchardgrass, and alfalfa are additional climatically adapted forage species selections
to those listed on page 3
Frost heave potential on these soils is moderate Open winters after wet falls with
significant freeze-thaw cycles may cause an occasional loss or reduction of alfalfa
stands. Probability of alfalfa stand reduction or loss is once in 5 years on average
Slopes are moderately steep. Additional caution should be used when driving wheeled
equipment as slopes near 25 percent. Potential for severe cattle trail erosion and
underutilized pasture areas is high. This is heightened by a single watering facility
located at the upper or lower end of pasture greater than 800 feet long in the direction
of the slope Fence construction on this soil group requires more line brace assemblies
,to maintain adequate wire fence tension as more breaks in grade are encountered than
on smoother, flatter sloped soil groups
Channery rock fragments will interfere with post setting and seedbed preparation
somewhat. Tillage tools will wear out prematurely. The rock fragments are also largely
responsible for the plant available water holding capacity (AWC) to be in the moderate
range. The same soils without the channers are in the high AWC range Forage
production on these soils of moderate water holding capacity will be noticeably affected
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