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Companion for lucerne
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<blockquote data-quote="AG Tim" data-source="post: 3665202" data-attributes="member: 49246"><p>The rye grass tends to set seeds in stages where the lucerne isnt mature enough (early flowering for hay) to harvest. That whas our experience of a mixture of 20% late rye grass varietys, with 60% lucerne and 10% White Clover at 15kg/ha seeded into triticale stubble short after harvest.</p><p></p><p>The Clover should only fill the gaps - but dyed out in the first year, as lucerne and raygrass whas a too dominant canopy all the time - with more cutting and grazing like raygrass/Clover swards it could compete, but the later cutting due to lucerne whas killing it. Even the higher cut with 10cm stubble let some lucerne leafes at the bottom overlive that it whas really fast in rew growing. With the First year of experience and the Idea to dry the lucerne to hay (normaly cut it for silage) for milking cows we also detached the conditioner on a mower to keep the leaves on the plants, but after two years the lucerne desappeared more and more. When we break down the Crop to continue with combinables cropping we had huge problems with field mice populations. So we never tried it again. </p><p></p><p>Would also think Timothy is the Best partner as it is late and wont dominate that canopy like rye grass.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AG Tim, post: 3665202, member: 49246"] The rye grass tends to set seeds in stages where the lucerne isnt mature enough (early flowering for hay) to harvest. That whas our experience of a mixture of 20% late rye grass varietys, with 60% lucerne and 10% White Clover at 15kg/ha seeded into triticale stubble short after harvest. The Clover should only fill the gaps - but dyed out in the first year, as lucerne and raygrass whas a too dominant canopy all the time - with more cutting and grazing like raygrass/Clover swards it could compete, but the later cutting due to lucerne whas killing it. Even the higher cut with 10cm stubble let some lucerne leafes at the bottom overlive that it whas really fast in rew growing. With the First year of experience and the Idea to dry the lucerne to hay (normaly cut it for silage) for milking cows we also detached the conditioner on a mower to keep the leaves on the plants, but after two years the lucerne desappeared more and more. When we break down the Crop to continue with combinables cropping we had huge problems with field mice populations. So we never tried it again. Would also think Timothy is the Best partner as it is late and wont dominate that canopy like rye grass. [/QUOTE]
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