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<blockquote data-quote="IluvABbeef" data-source="post: 587503" data-attributes="member: 3739"><p>Why worry about what's going to happen the first year you plant the crop when there's a whole whack of subsequent years to think about what's going to happen to interactions between clover and grass? Of course you need fertilizer the first year, that's no doubt, and of course the grass ain't going to benefit from the clover right away because the clover (and the grass) still have root systems to establish. Adequate growth for clover will come from fertilizer and rhizobia, and growth from grass will come from fertilizer, possibly the same fertilizer used for clover. </p><p></p><p>The cattle will still be selective if the clover and grass is mixed, but there will be a higher incidence of selective grazing if the two cultures are planted separately in strips. What I was saying was that okay, cattle will select out the clover if they have enough reason to, but if the pastures are managed properly that is less likely to happen, and that with a mixed grass-legume sward the cattle have a much higher chance of grabbing a mouthful of grass along with clover than if the clover was seeded into strips separate from the grass. Overgrazing will occur in those strips of just clover, ending up with a ugly patchy pasture that you never intended to have in</p><p>the first place.</p><p></p><p>And I wasn't talking about where clover gets its nitrogen from. I don't even remember talking about anything like that, unless I missed something...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IluvABbeef, post: 587503, member: 3739"] Why worry about what's going to happen the first year you plant the crop when there's a whole whack of subsequent years to think about what's going to happen to interactions between clover and grass? Of course you need fertilizer the first year, that's no doubt, and of course the grass ain't going to benefit from the clover right away because the clover (and the grass) still have root systems to establish. Adequate growth for clover will come from fertilizer and rhizobia, and growth from grass will come from fertilizer, possibly the same fertilizer used for clover. The cattle will still be selective if the clover and grass is mixed, but there will be a higher incidence of selective grazing if the two cultures are planted separately in strips. What I was saying was that okay, cattle will select out the clover if they have enough reason to, but if the pastures are managed properly that is less likely to happen, and that with a mixed grass-legume sward the cattle have a much higher chance of grabbing a mouthful of grass along with clover than if the clover was seeded into strips separate from the grass. Overgrazing will occur in those strips of just clover, ending up with a ugly patchy pasture that you never intended to have in the first place. And I wasn't talking about where clover gets its nitrogen from. I don't even remember talking about anything like that, unless I missed something... [/QUOTE]
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