Dear Sir;
Teff is a warm season annual. Don't plant it until ALL chance of frost is
gone. Frost will kill it!!! It is small seeded and needs a good seed to soil contact. If the soil is warm and moist, it can germinate and sprout in 5 -7 days. In about 50 days, one can take the first cutting. Leave a 3 -4 inch
stubble and in 30 days, take the second cutting. One should get 3 -4 cuttings per year. Seed at 8 -10 lbs / acre (there are 1.3 M/ seeds/ lb).
Cutting it before it heads too much can help push quality as high as 14%
protein. It is an annual and will be killed with the first frost in the fall. It tends to mellow the soil. It is NOT a crop to be "frost seeded" as the frost
WILL kill it!!!
Numerous seed folks will be handling it this spring.