gberry":molvzkux said:
We will be using it on approximately 100 acres a year for clover and ryegrass. A smaller drill would be fine for us as we probably don't have the horsepower to pull a 15ft no till, anyway. Our soil is very sandy.
Just out of curiosity, how is the ball clover working for you. That's one of the varieties we plan to try this year.
Sorry I haven't answered back already. Been busy sneezing my head off with my eyeballs rolled back in my head. The ball clover is getting to be a sore subject. :lol: I've been trying off and on since 2005 and probably bought and wasted about $1000 worth of seed. Most of the problem getting it started (till this year) I have to attibute to irregular weather patterns and drought. It takes more than 1 rain over 35 days to keep it growing after it sprouts.
My attempt this year is still questionable. I was planting Apache and Yucchi in the pastures with oats and ryegrass. Finally got on the last oat patch in November (still kind of wet) and was going to run out of clover seed. Decided to add a bag of Ball to the mix (try it one more time). Hindsight now tells me I should have pulled the tubes out and let the seed fall on the ground. The planter was making inch deep groves. It was coming up when we got a hard 3 inch rain. Any clover that was in the bottom of the planting groove got covered up in the wash. The ryegrass and clover were tall enough that it didn't phase them.
It has been to wet to get out and take a closer look lately. Last time I looked several weeks ago the clover was still to small to really identify the variety (not having my glasses didn't help). I've had better luck with the Yucchi over the Apache this year, but I think planting condidtions are at play again. The ground was on the wet side when I planted (was going to get wetter) and I ended up getting a lot of it in to deep also.