Faster Forage Option for Growers.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-1 April 2008-Agricultural Research Service: Faster Forage Option for Growers(C)1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD

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A new bahiagrass may provide forage growers with a better shot at beating back weeds before they gain a stranglehold on forage pastures. Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists in Tifton, Ga., have developed a cultivar called "TifQuik" that would do just that.

Geneticist Bill Anderson and colleagues in the ARS Crop Genetics and Breeding Research Unit in Tifton developed TifQuik, a bahiagrass with great potential as a forage grass in the Southeast. ARS is the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) chief scientific research agency.

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