Bamboo has potential to increase profits substantially on farms in USDA Zones 7 and 8. Fresh bamboo shoots are a succulent vegetable commanding high farmgate prices. The United States imports 30,000 tons of canned bamboo shoots every year.
Fresh ones taste better than canned ones.
They are not available. Bamboo is harvested for bamboo shoots every spring. Bamboo poles are harvested every winter. Grasses are very successful, efficient plants. There are more than 5,000 species of grass in the grass family, gramineae.