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Sunday, November 25, 2007

Switchgrass: The president's favorite grass

A Prairie Land’s Companion The post is an article from the USDA on switchgrass. By the sound of this there are very few genetic differences between some of the "new" cultivars of switchgrass and the original or native strains. According to the post this is likely due to the short time that switchgrass has been commercially bred.
Posted by Garth Johnston at 8:02 PM
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