treefarmer

I would recommend either buck Forage Oats or Elbon Rye. On good soils, I think Buck Forage Oats is the best, so if it's near beans and Corn, the BFO is the ticket and it is more drought and cold hardy than other varieties.

So Far, no evidence of spraying on the clover, but worked good on annual grasses and weeds. I have one major weed, not sure what it is, that needed a higher rate. I guess I will go back and spray it with a backpack and 1 oz/gallon glyphosate. It is spreading and forming a mat that I am afraid will choke out the clover. Overall the glyphosate worked good. next time I will try a slightly higher rate.

This is what I was afraid of when it was drier, but I am hoping the rainfall we had the last couple weeks will be enough to keep from burning them up too bad. I had good results back in spring also, except that on the drier sites it really set them back since we hit a drought in late spring. I have really noticed a difference in spraying quality soils versus poor soils. The healthier plants seem to recover quickly, but the clover on poorer soils struggle. Either way, I needed to know since I am tired of replanting every year due to weed pressure.

I like Pennington Clover trio that has some crimson with the ladino for quicker growth the first fall. In our soils, there isn't much hunting on the ladinos the first year they grow so slow. The crimson adds quick growth you can hunt.

I got brave and sprayed my clover today. Soil moisture is good for a change (wasn't good last couple months), I mowed them last weekend, and they looked healthy. I used 8 oz glyphosate to 15 gallons of water in my 25 gallon sprayer in the back of my Mule trans4 with a peacock (buterfly) type nozzle. Has anyone else tried glyphosate in hot weather? I hope it works, but I figure worst case scenario it will resprout when we next get rain, best case soil moisture stays decent and it doesn't topkill, just stunts for a few weeks. I just wanted to go into the fall without a weed problem for a change. This is my second glyphoate treatment this year. Last one was early spring. Let me know if anyone here has tried it his late.

Dursban/Lorsban are still sold under a variety of names (see Chlorpyrifos active ingredient). Many uses were removed from the label, but there is still a lot of it floating around.