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Red clover silage

  • 17-08-2021 5:48pm
    #1
    Ttttttttytttty
    Registered Users Posts: 8 ✭


    Hi, I am considering growing red clover along with grass for silage primarily for weanlings just looking for some advice from people who have grown red clover for silage and the recommendations and management techniques with using it.

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  • #2
    Bass Reeves
    Registered Users Posts: 18,127 ✭✭✭✭Bass Reeves


    I grew it with a hybrid for a while. The ley only lasted about three years. Crop was poor in year three. I grew straight hybrids for a few years as well same issue after three year the ley grew too weak and need to be reseeded. I replaced it with a standard grazing/silage ley.

    Slava Ukrainii



  • #3
    Markcheese
    Registered Users Posts: 8,427 ✭✭✭Markcheese


    Is it possible to stitch in extra red clover seed ? - or even broadcast it to keep the ley going .

    Did you have to do anything different at harvest ? ( No conditioner on the mower or knives on the baler ) , as the leaf is quite "fragile" compared to grass silage ..

    Slava ukraini 🇺🇦



  • #4
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,615 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    Needs to be mowed high to stop the clover dying out. Hard to get a contractor to do this.

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • #5
    GrasstoMilk
    Registered Users Posts: 3,809 ✭✭✭GrasstoMilk


    20210814_104000.jpg

    Sowed the 17th May after 1st cut

    Stiched in 4 kg red clover and 11 kg hybrid

    Took 2nd cut 7 week ago and that's the aftermath



  • #6
    Ttttttttytttty
    Registered Users Posts: 8 ✭Ttttttttytttty


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117772949#Comment_117772949

    How do u cut it, is it different to a traditional grass silage crop



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