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<blockquote data-quote="Beef Man" data-source="post: 1115831" data-attributes="member: 13859"><p>In this area sweet clover, at times ,grows every where. We have hayed it and silaged it and it is damn good feed BUT beware of it if it gets moldy!!! When I was a kid we lost 27 yearling steers one night from sweet clover bloat[called that because they swell up and bleed to death under the skin or internally] Those that did'nt die took most of the summer to recover. This said we have and will continue to use it for feed when ever we can and will seed it on some years if it is needed. Have had up to 11 ton of silage and it is wonderfull feed .When we stacked it loose years ago we salted it as we stacked and it came out of those stacks as pretty as any feed you ever saw. The seed will sometimes l lay in the ground for a few years and have seen mile upon mile of solid yellow everywhere, and smells so sweet and fresh. When we plant clover we seed it with a grain crop and harvest that off and the next year we harvest the clover. Dad and the old uncles always said it fertilized the land so the following year the crops would really respond.It is trully a good nitrogen fixer and have seen nodules on some root as big as a fair sized potatoe. I have no idea if the yellow clover will grow just anywhere and white seet clover is usually so big and coarse that its not worth raiseing. Quite a few organic wheat farmers grow it with their wheat and claim it helps to control weeds. A lot of grain farmers criticize us for seeding it as they consider it a weed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Beef Man, post: 1115831, member: 13859"] In this area sweet clover, at times ,grows every where. We have hayed it and silaged it and it is damn good feed BUT beware of it if it gets moldy!!! When I was a kid we lost 27 yearling steers one night from sweet clover bloat[called that because they swell up and bleed to death under the skin or internally] Those that did'nt die took most of the summer to recover. This said we have and will continue to use it for feed when ever we can and will seed it on some years if it is needed. Have had up to 11 ton of silage and it is wonderfull feed .When we stacked it loose years ago we salted it as we stacked and it came out of those stacks as pretty as any feed you ever saw. The seed will sometimes l lay in the ground for a few years and have seen mile upon mile of solid yellow everywhere, and smells so sweet and fresh. When we plant clover we seed it with a grain crop and harvest that off and the next year we harvest the clover. Dad and the old uncles always said it fertilized the land so the following year the crops would really respond.It is trully a good nitrogen fixer and have seen nodules on some root as big as a fair sized potatoe. I have no idea if the yellow clover will grow just anywhere and white seet clover is usually so big and coarse that its not worth raiseing. Quite a few organic wheat farmers grow it with their wheat and claim it helps to control weeds. A lot of grain farmers criticize us for seeding it as they consider it a weed. [/QUOTE]
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