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Frost seeding clovers into tall fescue pastures provides multiple ecosystem services

Ball, crimson, red and white clovers can be successfully frost seeded into tall fescue pastures as a strategy to create a grass-legume mixture and to improve pasture and livestock responses.

December 12, 2023

Miguel Castillo

Tall fescue-clover pastures have a long history of improving livestock performance in the U.S. transition zone as well as mitigating the effects of fescue toxicosis.

Annual clovers for poorly drained soils in the southeast U.S.

Livestock producers need to evaluate such factors as the seed cost and availability, forage production, reseeding ability, level of winter hardiness and bloat potential of these clover species before making their decision on which species to plant.

June 27, 2023

Ed Twidwell

Annual clovers that can be planted in the fall and grazed during the winter and spring months are popular additions to many livestock programs in the Southeast region of the U.S.

Made in the shade: Explaining silvopasture

A sustainable silvopasture system can be achieved by ensuring that tree, pasture productivity and livestock are managed for optimal production.

March 7, 2023

Carrie Veselka

Silvopasture is a practice that integrates livestock, forage production and forestry on the same land management unit. It has the potential to be a great fit for producers looking to up their grazing game and add a revenue stream.

Southeast: Red clover: An underutilized clover in the Southeast

February 15, 2023

Kim Mullenix

Red clover can be a great way to increase yield and add diversity to any forage system.

Estrogen and the single plant

Livestock producers need to be aware – but not scared – of phytoestrogen-producing forage legumes and how grazing them can affect their herds’ reproductive health.

August 25, 2022

Woody Lane

Fifty years ago in Australia, soon after subterranean clover (Trifolium subterraneum) became a popular forage there, farmers and scientists observed a dramatic decline in the fertility of ewes grazing subclover pastures

Great Plains: An invaluable ecological and agricultural carbon sink

January 27, 2020

Alan D. Iwaasa and Aklilu Alemu

The Great Plains is the major grassland of North America and extends from the boreal forest in Canada (Alberta, central British Columbia, Manitoba and Saskatchewan) all the way south to the Mexican border.

The ‘superpowers’ of clover

October 29, 2019

Jimmy Henning and Michael Flythe

As a forage crop agronomist, clover has always been the holy grail. Clover in pastures improves soil condition, supplies nitrogen to companion grasses when recycled back to pasture as manure and urine, increases yield, increases intake of both protein and energy and can eliminate the need for supplemental fertilizer nitrogen (N) when high-yielding legumes like red clover are present in grass pastures.

Purple prairie clover: A promising forage

August 30, 2019

Alan D. Iwaasa, Yuxi Wang, and C. Gu

Purple prairie clover (PPC, Dalea purpurea Vent.) is an important native perennial legume widely distributed across North America with high palatability, adaptability and forage quality.

Red clover: An alternative to antibiotic growth promoters?

February 24, 2016

Michael Flythe and Glen Aiken

People have always used food to overcome illness and improve health. Human nutritionists have recently started calling foods with medicinal value functional foods. We borrowed that idea to look for a functional feed, a plant, or plant-based product, which could be used to achieve the same benefit as antibiotic growth promoters.

Tackle fescue toxicosis with spring strategies

March 24, 2013

Glen Aiken

Tall fescue is a cool-season perennial grass that is productive and well adapted to the soils and climate in a region of the U.S. commonly called the “fescue belt.”

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Frost seeding clovers into tall fescue pastures provides multiple ecosystem services

Annual clovers for poorly drained soils in the southeast U.S.

Made in the shade: Explaining silvopasture

Southeast: Red clover: An underutilized clover in the Southeast

Estrogen and the single plant

Great Plains: An invaluable ecological and agricultural carbon sink

The ‘superpowers’ of clover

Purple prairie clover: A promising forage

Red clover: An alternative to antibiotic growth promoters?

Tackle fescue toxicosis with spring strategies

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