Red Clover for Pasture: Easy Establishment and Nitrogen Fixation
Keith and Dale walk through red clover varieties in the test plots and explain why it's one of the easiest legumes to establish in pastures. Learn how to broadcast red clover into wheat, oats, or existing grass pastures, and why it's a reliable nitrogen fixer for cool-season forage.
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0:00 [Music]
0:13 When I'm standing in here is a couple.
0:15 Different varieties of red clover and red clover something I don't usually use.
0:21 A lot of, as a cover crop it's one of the more difficult plants to terminate it's.
0:29 Actually a perennial that's rather short-lived.
0:32 So it's pastures in that situation it's one of the very best, very easy to.
1:01 Establish one of the easiest torch dancers.
1:08 Broadcast the seed into a wheat crop or oats in the spring broadcast in Rome or
1:25 Around and beat it up out here rocky pastures you can broadcast this.
1:30 Legume does very well. It's a good nitrogen fixer to get forward to.
1:34 Producer and it really adds to the overall productivity of the cool season.
1:39 Grass pasture. It's really no.