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Grazing North Texas – Scribner’s Panicum
By Tony Dean
Scribner’s panicum is one of our native perennial grasses in North Texas that goes mostly unnoticed, but it is probably more important to our grazing livestock than we realize. It can grow from six inches up to 18 inches in height, but can easily get lost in the maze of green that occurs in early spring months across our pastures.
Scribner’s panicum has been called by several other names, including Scribner’s dichanthelium, and Scribner’s rosette grass. The reference to rosette came from the fact that it is considered a winter perennial because it emerges in the fall and winter as a small group of leaves, or a rosette, then matures in May and June.
This grass has also had a change in its scientific name and is now called Dichanthelium oligosanthes. The genus comes from two Greek words, the first being “di,” meaning two, and the next being “anth,” meaning flowering, because Scribner’s panicum flowers (or makes a seed head) once in the spring and again in the fall. The seed head produced in the fall is usually smaller.
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By Krista Lucas Wynn
Each year, when the professional rodeo season wraps on Sept. 30, the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association and Women’s Professional Rodeo Association announce the Nutrena Horse of the Year, presented by the American Quarter Horse Association, in each event. This is a prestigious award, voted on by the members of the associations. To be named Horse of the Year by fellow competitors is a high honor only a few achieve.
To read more, pick up a copy of the November edition of North Texas Farm & Ranch magazine, available digitally and in print. To subscribe by mail, call 940-872-5922.
By Heather Welper
Husband and wife duo, Heather and Calvin Welper, are the Co-Owners and Operators or Two C Livestock, located in Valley View, Texas.
The pair’s operation has a show cattle focus where they raise and sell purebred heifers of all breeds and club calf Hereford steers.
When it comes to show cattle, the Welpers know a thing or two including how to prepare for the cold winter months and the Texas major show season run.
To read more, pick up a copy of the November edition of North Texas Farm & Ranch magazine, available digitally and in print. To subscribe by mail, call 940-872-5922.
By Tony Dean
Snow on the Mountain is an annual forb that is part of our landscape almost every year.
It is adapted to most of Texas and grows north to Montana and Minnesota and south to Mexico.
Although is seems to be most adapted to clay soils, this plant can be found on a wide variety of soil and moisture conditions.
To read more, pick up a copy of the November edition of North Texas Farm & Ranch magazine, available digitally and in print. To subscribe by mail, call 940-872-5922.
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