Mississippi Kudzu
In a 1973 article about mississippi alice walker author of the color purple wrote that racism is like that local creeping kudzu vine that swallows whole forests and abandoned houses.
Mississippi kudzu. Kudzu 1049 will be broadcasting live from the arella alpaca farm on saturday october 3 2020 from 2 4 pm during their october fall festival. Deciduous leaves have three broad leaflets up to 4 inches across. Kudzu 1049 is a radio station licensed to iuka mississippithe station has a classic country music format with music from the 1960s 1970s 1980s and 1990s.
When grazing rotational grazing is recommended to maintain stand. It was introduced into the united states in 1876 at the centennial exposition in philadelphia and was recognized as highly nutritious livestock forage in 1905. An invasive weed kudzu was introduced to the united states in the late 1800s.
The stations target audience is 32 to 54 year old adults who started listening to country music in the 1970s and 1980s. Kudzu can also be harvested for silage but the silage is light and difficult to manage. It disrupts native ecosystems threatens natural resources and inhibits use of forest land particularly in mississippi where kudzu is pervasive.
Kudzu can be used for grazing continuous or rotational or hay production. Individual flowers about 12 inch long are purple highly fragrant and borne in long hanging clusters. Land infested with kudzu has little or no value.
Leaflets lobed with hairy margins. Every saturday in october from 11 am 9. The kudzu was a counterculture underground newspaper published in jackson mississippi starting in september 1968.