(Continued from Page 20)
Back to my trials. My curiosity on
clovers and legumes gave me the in
centive to add a twist to the test plots.
You see, I wanted to evaluate particu
lar varieties of ladino and red clover,
as well as birdsfoot trefoil. Also, I
wanted to leam how they would boost
the ryegrasses as compared to apply
mg commercial fertilizer. So around
the first of March, I took the same area
and cross-seeded as shown in Dia
gram 3, with a grand finale of a dia
gonal strip of fertilizer to cross all
plots.
Cost? Oh, another few small bags
of seed. Benefits? Same as the above
three with additional answers to these
questions (actually, many more than
the ones listed, but maybe that’s be
cause I like to ask lots of questions!):
• Which will come up fastest: birds
foot, ladino, or red clover?
• Will the mixtures be compliment
ary?
• Animal preference?
• Seasonal preference?
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• Nitrogen benefit difference?
• Affect on the annual compared to
rennial?
the
• Did the fertilizer benefit the clov
ers significantly?
I have studied more trial data than
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ality is, I cannot know exactly how tri
al data relates to me and my operation
until I apply it under my own manage
ment. (More than likely, I am going to
do a poorer job than the universities,
so I need better varieties!)
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I met Chuck at the Great Lakes
Grazing Conference this year. Chuck
told me he was working on a project to
determine the feasibility of raising
sheep in a part of the world that re
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(northern Illinois).
Taking com ’n bean ground and
putting sheep on it? Sound like some
thing out of a fairy tale!
Anyway, as part of Chuck’s project,
he was going to overseed a 2-year-old
stand of alfalfa with orchardgrass. He
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sidering evaluating more than just one
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ter a few discussions, Chuck’s plans
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