Maximizing Success with Frost Seedings of Clover

Here are a few tips to ensure you have the best chance of getting clover established from a frost-seeding:

1. Address soil fertility needs.
2. Select a good variety.
3. Make sure seed lands on bare soil.
4. Get good seed-soil contact.
5. Control competition next spring

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Several steps that are of vital importance in the establishment and maintenance of good forage stands include:

• Match plants to soil.
• Match plants to the intended use. Hay? Pasture?
• Select high-quality seed of an adapted variety.
• Supply proper fertility.
• Prepare an adequate seedbed.
• Inoculate legume seed.
• Use proven seeding methods.
• Seed at the right time with the correct amount of seed.
• Control pests.

Establishment Publications:

Tall Fescue Novel Endophyte Varieties and Establishment for Livestock and Horse Farms

Frost Seeding Clover:  A Recipe for Success

Grain Drill Calibration:  Don't Make a Mistake--CALIBRATE

Ideal Forage Seeding Depth Demo

Grain Drill Calibration Table

Establishing Forage Crops

Renovating Hay and Pasture Fields

Establishing Horse Pastures

Grain & Forage Crop Guide for Kentucky

Inoculation of Forage Legumes

"Emergency" Inoculation for Poorly Nodulated Legumes

Alfalfa Germination and Growth - NAFA and UW Extension

Establishing Alfalfa for Forages - Arkansas

Rotational Grazing