Medics and Bladder Clover: Finding Cover Crops for Hot, Dry Regions
Watch Keith and Dale evaluate medics and bladder clover in our test plots. See how barrel medic, spineless Cavalier medic, snail medic, and bladder clover perform—and which ones might work for your hot, dry climate.
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0:00 [Music]
0:07 Things were constantly doing here at green cover seat we're evaluating new.
0:13 And novel material Australia as a climate that's pretty similar to Southwest Texas and so we think it's
0:42 Hard to find materials hot dry regions.
0:55 And some of those are the paddocks guess barrel medic here, this is a Cavalier.
1:02 Spineless medic, we've got a couple of other medics over here. Snail medic, just trying to see if any of these might have
1:13 Again the most impressive one to me, and this comes at no surprise if anybody's listening from Australia, this is very.
1:25 Popular emerging cover crop in Australia and that's the spineless Cavalier paddock really looking good they're used.
1:34 As winter annuals Australia here, everything here was free planted that we're looking at today but even in the.
1:53 Perennial good nitrogen fixers receding.
2:12 [Applause]
2:19 This selection material like I said.
2:24 We've got some aromatic. You got this finalist Cavalier Matic. We've got snail medic and then we've got bladder clover.
2:34 Over here and just given these things a look and if you want to try some of these especially if you're somewhere.
2:44 Further south where these would stand at better chances get some of this material see what.