Agriculture Reference
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Lambsquarters
Used in silage, it supplies needed nutrients. As a matter of fact, both pigweed and lamb-
squarters can become excellent silage. Both have a high protein content. Lambsquarters
grows in a soil that has an appropriate decay system going, which of course has a direct
bearing on release and catalyzing release of a good array of quality mineral nutrients. This
weed does not depend on phosphate or potassium from fertilizers. Soil is intended to grow
vegetative matter.
Lambsquarters and redroot pigweed stand at the top of the ladder of the phylum of
weeds that can grow under different soil conditions. They reflect almost ideal producing
