GERMAN STRAIN R - Selected in Texas by the late J. R. McNeill, German Strain R Foxtail Millet is relatively early, fine-stemmed, and leafy with compact cylindrical heads. The spines of the heads tend to be reddish purple in the immature stage but become straw-colored at maturity. The variety has good seedling vigor and is resistant to lodging.

PIPER SUDANGRASS - was developed by the Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Station and released in 1951. It has good forage yielding ability and is very low in hydrocyanic acid (prussic acid) content. It has good disease resistance and has the palatability characteristics of sweet sudangrass. It produces good regrowth after pasturing, has stiff stalks when mature, and produces high yields of good quality seed. Piper sudangrass is a popular pollinator for many Sorghum X Sudangrass hybrids produced today.

‘TEJAS’, tested as Syn 1, is a Texas Bluegrass (Poa arachnifera) and is characterized as a highly rhizomatous, dioecious, perennial cool-season grass native to southern Kansas, Oklahoma, western Arkansas, and most of Texas. ‘Tejas’ Texas Bluegrass has a very broad genetic base. It consists of 25 different plants from 10 different ecotypes that were collected in 7 different Texas counties and evaluated at the Texas A&M Research and Extension Center at Dallas. ‘Tejas’ has been evaluated for forage yields at Dallas, Temple, Overton, Stephenville, and the Red River Station of the Noble Foundation. ‘Tejas’ has had yields averaging from 2 tons to 2.5 tons of dry matter per year and has stand survival better than crested wheatgrass, Indian ricegrass, Matua prairiegrass, pubescent wheatgrass, Russian wildrye, several tall fescues, tall wheatgrass, and smooth bromegrass. As a turfgrass, it has acceptable turf quality and can equal Reveille during late summer. Applicable plant patents and/or PVP will be applied for ‘Tejas’. This variety was developed under a Research Support Grant provided by Gardner Turfgrass, Inc., who will have the first right to negotiate an exclusive licensing agreement with the Technology Licensing Office of Texas A&M University. Licensing discussions are in process and commercial availability will be determined in the near future. For additional information, please contact the Texas Foundation Seed Service.

EARLY SUMAC -

807 A -

A1 -