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L� <br />Wildlife Food and Cover - During the winter and spring months when the leaves of BLANDO <br />brume are green and succulent, it is an important component in the diets of both deer and quail. <br />Quail use a small amount of the seed after maturity. It also furnishes good nesting cover for quail in <br />areas that are protected from grazing, which will occur normally if ranges are properly used. <br />Soil Improvement - It is especially adapted for use as a reseeding annual cover crop on orchard and <br />vineyard land because of its ability to withstand excessive mowing better than other grasses and <br />mature seed under minimum water. <br />Seedbed - Areas to be seeded should have a firm seedbed which has been previously roughened by <br />disking, harrowing, raking, or otherwise worked to a depth of approximately 2 inches (5cm). <br />Seeding- Seeding should be made in the fall of the ear. The <br />.ding y preferred method of seeding is with a <br />drill. Good stands have been obtained from broadcast seeding, followed by a cultipacker, <br />C spiketooth harrow or similar tool to cover the seed. Seed should be planted uniformly over the area <br />I and covered to a depth of Vz inch (1.25cm). <br />The seeding rate for pasture or range seeding is 4 pounds per acre (4.48 kg/ha) drilled and 6 pounds <br />C per acre (6.73 kg/ha) if broadcast planted. An annual legume like Lana Vetch at the rate of 10 <br />pounds per acre (11.21 kg/ha) is frequently planted with BLANDO brume. For a critical area <br />planting the seedling rate is 18 pounds per acre (20.18 kg/ha). When used in cover crop planting <br />BLANDO brome is seeded at 6 pounds per acre (6.73 kg/ha). <br />IU <br />0 <br />U <br />n <br />0 <br />Livestock - When using BLANDO brume for <br />forage production, do not graze until plants <br />are 4 to 6 inches (10cm to 15cm) tall. On <br />newly seeded stands withold grazing until a <br />seed crop has matured. In subsequent years, <br />at the end of the grazing season, adequate <br />seed will have been produced if the pasture <br />has a uniformly patchy appearance. <br />A pasture of Blando brome and Lana Vetch seeded <br />in an old dryland grain field. <br />