Sainfoin Diversification

Sainfoin Diversification

October 17, 2013

Lauren Stoffel and Dan Mummey share an update on sanfoin diversification treatments.

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We planted sainfoin into a cheatgrass and crested wheatgrass dominated area on the north end of the ranch in 2010.

Sainfoin field October 2010 before treatments Sainfoin field

We broke the sainfoin field into nine plots that we will drill and broadcast seed with a mixture of forbs, grasses, or grasses and forbs perpendicular to the drilled sainfoin.

In each seeding treatment we will add two, 12 x 12 ft. exclosures into areas with sainfoin and natives, and the strips with no sainfoin. The exclosures will allow us to examine how sainfoin diversification changes with no grazing pressure.

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