Teff Grass for Summer Forage: High-Quality Hay and Rapid Dry-Down

0:00 This is tap grass. Teff is a warm season grass, a very fine stem, super high quality hay type product. The horse.

0:09 People love tough grass because of its extreme palatability because of its fine stem. I cannot plant this in cool.

0:17 Soils you need to have at least 65 to 70 degrees soils to plant this seed. Size is very very tiny so you cannot plant this.

0:25 Stuff very deep or it's not going to work for you. We have had some guys without, they'll plant it deeper with a

0:31 Drill but then they'll tie up their closing wheels so you're not closing that seed trench but you just cannot.

0:37 Plant this very deeper, it's not going to work very well. Grows extremely well in the heat, has exceptional drought.

0:43 Tolerance regrows very well and if you get it in the first part of June you can get 3 to 4 cuttings off.

1:00 Over almost any other summer annual grass. A product, if you look at that stem, that when you run that through a crimper.

1:09 That can dry out in one good curing date.

1:12 This can be swapped one day if you get a hundred degree windy day you can put.

1:19 This up the next day, very, very rapid drying. If you've been frustrating trying to put up sorghum Sudan grass because it

1:27 Just takes forever to dry out a lend row. This can be a real nice product. One other advantage this has—because the seed is so small—this can establish fairly well with broadcasting if it's followed up by a rain. So if you want to go out into say broom grass and get some extra summer production into some hailed out corn without destroying the entire field, what you have to gain—the little additional biomass out there for grazing or hay or chopping—this can be a really nice niche product for that.