(1) To provide sufficient legume to improve performance of cattle grazing high endophyte tall fescue, lespedeza and red clover should be interseeded every year, and ladino clover should be interseeded at least every 2 years.(2) Legume coverage was very sparse in the post-seeding years for all treatments except for the ladino clover treatment in year 1, which averaged >9%.(3) To boost the protein content of the pastures and to get the nitrogen-fixing benefit of legumes, Greg has frost-seeded quite a bit of red and ladino clover, and there is a scattering of alfalfa from very old hay stands.(4) A native prairie of black-eyed Susans, Indian grass, big and little bluestem, ladino clover, and other native grasses quilts the 32 acres of bottomground near the river.
