Duck weed instead of soybeans

Mike Fronczak

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Our pond is infested with the stuff, just for the I scooped some out last year (maybe a trash can worth), & put it in the pasture. The cows never touched it, left it to rot. As others have said it was a a lot of work just to get that amount, not worth it.
 

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We grow duckweed to feed our tilapia. It works pretty good once you get the kinks worked out. Duckweed needs a lot of surface area and we live in the desert so that means a lot of evaporation, so we had to refill the pools constantly. We also had to keep it in the shade and away from the dogs like that liked to go in to pools. Overall once you get it down it was pretty easy to maintain, but come fall we had a hard time growing enough for the fish. I could see how this might work somewhere maybe on the East Coast where you could grow this stuff in ponds, but not out here on the West Coast.
 

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It's pretty invasive and listed as such on most states' invasive plants roster.
For feeding even a few bovines, it would have to be dried and probably have to have other feeds or something like molasses added to it to get cattle to eat it.
 

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