When comparing warm season native grasses and cool season grasses with legumes, which gives the most production during summer months, which gives the most production in overall grazing season?
Barnhart: As the saying goes, you are comparing apples and oranges. When looking only at the summer months (late June through Aug ), well-managed (fertility) warm-season grasses will have a great physiological advantage and produce more standing forage than a cool-season grass plus legume. And, it is as likely that the warm-season grass will produce more total standing forage over the growing season. An exception might be an alfalfa-dominant pasture on a fertile site.
