Spring-Seeded Crimson Clover: Extending Range North
Watch Dale evaluate spring-seeded crimson clover varieties in the test plots. Learn why crimson clover is gaining attention as an early-season pollinator plant and how growers are pushing this species farther north than traditional fall-seeding allows.
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0:00 [Music]
0:11 What I'm standing in here, Kentucky Fried.
0:22 Dixie and if you were to make an
0:25 Evaluation right now say boy that.
0:28 Dixie looks better than the Kentucky.
0:30 Fried this is not how we're judging what.
0:38 We're really looking for in the crimson.
0:43 Range further these were spring seeded.
0:55 Crimson clover is not usually spring.
0:58 Planted just plant it in the fall.
1:01 Unfortunately, so we're very excited.
1:33 That even farther north, yeah. Because crimson clover, it's probably the most beautiful of all the clovers and it's great pollinator plant, one of the very first flowers to bloom in the spring, a lot of the most beautiful of all the cover crop flower.