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Yield and Nutritive Value of Forage Bermudagrasses Grown Using Subsurface Drip Irrigation in the Southern High Plains

^a Extension Plant Sciences Dep., Agricultural Science Center at Clovis, New Mexico State Univ., Clovis, NM 88101
^b Dep. of Plant and Soil Science, Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX 79409. Approved by the Dean of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Texas Tech Univ., Publ. no. T-4-571. Supported in part by a grant from Agricultural Enterprises Corp., Oklahoma City, OK

View larger version (19K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 1. Monthly precipitation and irrigation amounts at New Deal, TX, from 2001 to 2003. Bermudagrass was planted 11 May 2001 and experiment was terminated 11 Sept. 2003.

View larger version (19K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 2. Mean monthly (2-yr) and long-term (1911–2003) precipitation and temperature (1971–2000) at experimental location at New Deal, TX.

View larger version (24K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 3. Seasonal distribution of forage mass of bermudagrass cultivars grown in 2002 and 2003. Data are the means of four replications. Bars indicate the LSD (P < 0.05) for within-harvest comparisons.

View larger version (9K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 4. Two-year seasonal distribution of forage mass of bermudagrass grown with subsurface drip irrigation. Sprigged = mean of all sprigged cultivars except Tifton 85; Seeded = mean of all seeded cultivars.