I planted 1500 acres of the Lowboy for cover crop last year. I really liked it compared to the Marshall I used to finish up a farm after I ran out of Lowboy. When we planted the annual ryegrass last fall everything greened up and looked good through the winter but when spring rolled around I noticed driving by that it looked like the 60 acres of Marshall that we finished up with was a lot greener but upon closer examination it was just getting the top growth quicker. We dug a few plants of the Marshall vs Lowboy and decided they looked equal underground. As a couple more months went by the Lowboy probably got 36” tall or so and was standing great. The Marshall has gotten 48”-60” tall and was laying over creating a huge mat on the ground. Once we started planting these fields the Lowboy planted great because it was standing but the Marshall not so much. We had to make several adjustments to the planter to try to get it to cut through the (Marshall) mat and raise the population on the beans another 20,000 seeds per acre just because we weren’t getting them all in the ground like we had liked. After all that it was an easy decision that I didn’t want to mess with any other annual ryegrass that wasn’t shorter statured like the Lowboy.