I'm at the opposite end of the state but I'll take a stab at your question. I've had a little experience at what you are wanting to do. In north AR we aren't generally as hot as you. If I understand you are wanting to expand the bermuda fields for hay and shady grass for grazing? What grass are you talking about as shade tolerant? Bermuda is pretty tough competition for any other grass as long as it's taken care of. Keeping the weeds sprayed is a good start. Bermuda also likes potash, a soil sample would be helpful. If you can get chicken litter that's a good bermuda fertilizer.
If you start to see other grasses in your bermuda there are a couple of things you can do. If possible the easiest is to graze it hard in the summer. Cattle will usually eat other grass before the bermuda and this gets rid of the competition. There are also a couple of herbicides that you can spray that kills most other grasses that grow in bermuda but they are pretty expensive.
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