Jim Gerrish is the author of "Management-Intensive Grazing: The Grassroots of Grass Farming" and "Kick the Hay Habit: A Practical Guide to Year-around Grazing" and is a popular speaker at conferences around the world. His company, American GrazingLands Services LLC is dedicated to improving the health and sustainable productivity of grazing lands around the world through the use of Management-intensive Grazing practices. They work with small farms, large ranches, government agencies and NGO's to promote economically and environmentally sustainable grazing operations and believe healthy farms and ranches are the basis of healthy communities and healthy consumers. Visit their website to find out more about their consulting services and grazing management tools, including electric fencing, stock water systems, forage seed, and other management tools.
Jim,
3 questions:
Are there minerals or other fertilizer requirements that favor clover seedling survival and thriving?
Is it possible, with good management, to have perpetual clover in a pasture once established? Or do the methods you describe above work some years better than others, requiring spreading of purchased seed in off years?
Are there ways in the fescue belt to encourage white clover in with grasses, to spread through stolons and increase in stand density. Do some of these conflict with other clovers or legumes, or tons of overall, quality feed avail per acre?
Jim,
3 questions:
Are there minerals or other fertilizer requirements that favor clover seedling survival and thriving?
Is it possible, with good management, to have perpetual clover in a pasture once established? Or do the methods you describe above work some years better than others, requiring spreading of purchased seed in off years?
Are there ways in the fescue belt to encourage white clover in with grasses, to spread through stolons and increase in stand density. Do some of these conflict with other clovers or legumes, or tons of overall, quality feed avail per acre?