Do not graze plants until third year. If growth is vigorous, it may be grazed lightly the second year. For maximum production, pasture should be divided into 2 or more plots and grazed alternately or in rotation. Livestock should be taken from pasture before growth starts in spring. Good silage can be made of kudzu by mixing it with grass, the mixture containing about 60 percent moisture.
Cattle readily eat good silage.
About 25,000 plants or crowns can be harvested from an ordinary well-established plantation of 1 hectare. Under ideal conditions, twice that number. Planting stock should be left in the field until needed. Energy Several have suggested that the best way to get rid of a weed is to eat it, or use it in some other destructive fashion. The biomass of the kudzu could be converted into ethanol or beef and manure by patient entrepreneurs.