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Do you mow your perrenial clover?
#2854344
07/18/19 06:53 AM
07/18/19 06:53 AM
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Joined: Jun 2013
Posts: 5,648 Lincoln, Alabama
blumsden
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12 point
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OP
12 point
Joined: Jun 2013
Posts: 5,648
Lincoln, Alabama
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FYI. A new study done by Bonner Powell at the university of Tennessee, says that mowing perennials doesn't improve protein, nutrient content or digestibility. It simply reduced biomass available to deer. It does help with reducing problematic broadleaf weeds, however. I often wondered why people mowed down perfectly good stands of white clover. IMO, either don't worry about the broadleaf weeds, or spray them with 2,4,d,b. I have great success using gly on established clover stands at a 2ozs/gal rate. I like to do this in May. The clover is not stressed at this point and the broadleafs are emerging. If you have a grass problem, I would spray early April. This technique is used on fall planted clover, not clover planted that spring. It needs to be an establish clover stand.
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Re: Do you mow your perrenial clover?
[Re: blumsden]
#2855720
07/19/19 08:45 PM
07/19/19 08:45 PM
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Joined: Jan 2011
Posts: 38,489 N. Bama
257wbymag
Boo Boo Head
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Boo Boo Head
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Posts: 38,489
N. Bama
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I’ve got a a fine a stand of crimson right now as a man could ask for. I mowed and drilled soybeans into it and clover has flat taken over.
Quietly killing turkeys where youre not!!! My tank full of give a fraks been runnin on empty I'm the paterfamilias
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Re: Do you mow your perrenial clover?
[Re: blumsden]
#2855815
07/19/19 10:27 PM
07/19/19 10:27 PM
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Joined: Aug 2007
Posts: 2,886 Ozark , Alabama
BradB
10 point
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10 point
Joined: Aug 2007
Posts: 2,886
Ozark , Alabama
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I will be mowing about 1 1/2 acre tommorrow but just for broadleaf control. I actually have pretty good stands of both White Clovers and plot clovers with a mix of just about everything. It looks like it’s the Medium Red that is still cranking. When I got here yesterday I was amazed hey are still doing pretty well this late in the year
Last edited by BradB; 07/19/19 10:28 PM.
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Re: Do you mow your perrenial clover?
[Re: blumsden]
#2856177
07/20/19 01:21 PM
07/20/19 01:21 PM
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Joined: Apr 2017
Posts: 15,179 Ourtown, AL
BCLC
Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
Joined: Apr 2017
Posts: 15,179
Ourtown, AL
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IMO the primary gain of mowing clover down is that deer prefer tender new growth. I’ve mowed strips thru clover patches and you can watch the deer walk thru the unmowed strips to feed on the areas that have been mowed.
We’re not dead. We just smell that way. Dayum. - AC870
Yessir! I’m always gonna shoot what makes me happy and I want everyone else to do the same! If you shoot one be proud of it and don’t worry what anyone else thinks. - SJ22
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Re: Do you mow your perrenial clover?
[Re: blumsden]
#2872326
08/07/19 02:29 PM
08/07/19 02:29 PM
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Joined: Mar 2015
Posts: 4,343 FL
mw2015
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10 point
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Posts: 4,343
FL
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FYI. A new study done by Bonner Powell at the university of Tennessee, says that mowing perennials doesn't improve protein, nutrient content or digestibility. It simply reduced biomass available to deer. It does help with reducing problematic broadleaf weeds, however. I often wondered why people mowed down perfectly good stands of white clover. IMO, either don't worry about the broadleaf weeds, or spray them with 2,4,d,b. I have great success using gly on established clover stands at a 2ozs/gal rate. I like to do this in May. The clover is not stressed at this point and the broadleafs are emerging. If you have a grass problem, I would spray early April. This technique is used on fall planted clover, not clover planted that spring. It needs to be an establish clover stand. I mow clover several times per manufacturer recommendation to improve stolon growth and induce growth of daughter plants. Works for me.
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Re: Do you mow your perrenial clover?
[Re: blumsden]
#2872557
08/07/19 07:31 PM
08/07/19 07:31 PM
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Joined: Jan 2004
Posts: 31,681 Slidell, La
perchjerker
Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
Joined: Jan 2004
Posts: 31,681
Slidell, La
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While cutting plots may not protein, the new growth is more attractive and palatable for deer. In the fall often food plots grow too much due to browse and acorns. The grass gets tall and tough. Cutting can stimulate the plot usage.
Thomas Jefferson. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Life is too short to only hunt and fish on weekends!
If being a dumbass was fatal some of you would be on your death bed!
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