Management and recommendations:
- Test soil and follow lime and fertilizer recommendations
- Soil pH should be 6.0 to 6.5
- Plan acreage needed (0.5 to 0.8 acre/cow+calf)
- Graze or hay warm-season grasses to about two inch height before planting
- Disturb sod with light disking and plant 10 lbs/acre
- Arrowleaf clover will provide grazing from March to June
- Will also provide about 100 lb nitrogen/acre that will be available to
warm-season grasses through nutrient cycling - Not a reseeding system if grazed until June
APACHE Arrowleaf Clover: a new cultivar with improved performance:
- Apache is resistant to Lethal Wilt: Every spring in east Texas, aphids attack arrowleaf clover. In the process, one of the viruses transmitted to plants by the insects, is bean yellow mosaic virus (BYMV).
- This virus disease induces a lethal wilt in approximately 20% of the ‘Yuchi’ population, resulting in death of the plants. The genetic trait for this susceptibility has been eliminated from Apache.
- Apache is more tolerant to BYMV disease: Significant improvements are observed in visible disease symptoms – dwarfing, leaf rugosity, leaf chlorosis, leaf mosaic.
- Higher field survival rates: When infected with BYMV, Apache has higher survival rates in the field than Yuchi. This is in addition to lethal wilt resistance.
- Early spring forage production: Apache has greater forage production in early spring (March) when compared to Yuchi.
- Total season forage production: Apache’s total season forage production is greater or equal to that of Yuchi.
- Earlier flowering: Apache flowers 10-14 days earlier than Yuchi.
- Apache arrowleaf clover was developed at the Texas A&M University Agricultural Research and Extension Center at Overton in response to the need for disease resistance in this important clover.
- Apache was released by the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station (now Texas AgriLife Research) as a new cultivar in 2001.
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