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red clover

I have an observation of a virgin prairie in eastern Nebraska near Omaha. The prairie was infested with red clover. In 2000 we asked the owner to cut just half of the prairie in August and leave the other half so we could burn in the spring. He cut the prairie in about 20 feet wide strips. Cut and hayed a twenty foot strip and left a twenty foot strip unmowed across the entire eight acres of the prairie. In May of 2000 the strips were burnt. Half the entire prairie was cut but in strips. I think he misunderstood what we met by cut half the prairie but this method helped prove a experiment.
This summer the entire of prairie was cut in August. Today I visited the prairie and the red clover was thick on the part of the prairie that was mowed and not burnt. The prairie part that was burnt had very little red clover. I could clearly see the red clover strips growing across the prairie. I think it pays to burn a prairie late after the red clover starts to grow to eliminate it.

Glenn Pollock
Omaha, Nebraska
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