I got my wheat covered this morning, three plots, and put clover on top of one, wheel rolled it with my Ranger, and had a nice rain on it about an hour after. I have a one acre plot and a half acre plot to plant a couple hours away from home, and I hope to get that Wednesday, which is the only day this week without forecasted rain. If I can get that in, I'm trying the clover there too. You can't win if you don't enter !
My red clover plot is actually getting hit harder right now than my ladino. A mixture of white/red may be something I try next fall
I did a mixture of white and red in my perennial plot which is in its 3rd year. Still have a good amount of red clover. It does reseed itself nicely.
So far, my red clover has reseeded itself also. Where I have Durana previously I think the Durana will overcome the red in a year or two. I do like Doc in the above post and use red clover in my fall plots for my summer food. For the fall plantings of medium red clover I use 3 to 5 lb per acre (non coated raw seed) because it is always in a mix. That seems to give me fairly good coverage in the summer. The first summer I had MRC on 17 Acres of plots across the road from my neighbors 25-acre soybean field that he plants exclusively for the deer. The deer did not go into his bean field very much and instead of having 5 to 10 bushel beans in fall , area farmers estimated he could have cut 50 bushels to the acre the off his beans. I think the deer stayed on my side of the road that year!! Since then he has had a severe pigweed problem and planted corn so I don't know if the draw for red clover really works against soybeans or not. Maybe someone else can add to this.
