Medium Red Clover vs. Southern Belle Red Clover: Which Lasts Longer?

0:03 We have ever read clovers here. The first one is our common medium red clover. It's very inexpensive as far as red clover seed goes and for a short term stand.

0:17 There's really not that much wrong with it. As you can see, there's not a lot of difference between it and the other one. This is our southern belle red clover.

0:28 A second air stand and for 1-2 years not going to be a huge amount of difference between these two, however the difference between the southern belle and the

0:42 Common medium red is in disease tolerance. Red clover roots are attacked by a whole complex of diseases: northern anthracnose, southern anthracnose, and a

0:55 Lot of others, the better varieties of red clover will have much better tolerance to those diseases like worse. The longer the stand is in place, the

1:06 More those diseases can to build up so even though there's not much difference between these two right now next year I expect this will still be here and this.

1:18 Will just look bad and that's been my experience with the common medium red clover. Just does not persist very well and you can get three or four years out.

1:45 Easy to establish, comes up quick. You can establish it by broadcasting. My favorite way is to have some seed on hand when you get a snow. I like to...

1:58 Broadcast in the snow, establish it.

2:03 Good seedling, bigger, get shade tolerance, gets right with, and compared to other clovers a lot of good first year and.

2:13 Second year production now. It mention it since to three year lifespan on the plant but it can be managed to reseed itself robot now as.

2:27 As far as productivity per acre, red clover in its peak, in its prime, probably number two development issues. It also has much less, much safer in a pasture setting, especially continuous advantage grace.