>I'm looking for suggestions on how to reduce clover in my pastures.
So odd to see this, I'v e been trying hard to get clover to grow and
for me 70% clover would be great pastures. <G> We've not done any
frost seeding, or anything except very close grazing and we're seeing
more and more white clover come up in our pastures. Perhaps letting
the grasses get longer will suppress it?
>The alice is persistent and productive and aggressive and now
>dominates many of the pastures, leading to problems with bloat. We lost a
>couple of ewes last year and have had to treat couple already this year
Is alice clover the standard normal white clover? Are there any
pictures of it somewhere? We have a lot of the white clover but we so
far <knock on wood> haven't had any bloat problems in our sheep at
all. Then again our sheep do seem to eat a variety of stuff when
available and in a year like this they pick the clover first but also
eat grasses and other stuff so perhaps that is preventing the bloat
problems.
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