Grazing Management Effects on Diverse White Clover Cultivars

Tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea Schreb.) was oversewn with Grasslands Huia, Louisiana S-1, and Regal white clover (Trifolimn repens L.) and stocked the following year continuously or rotationally with cattle to detennine cultivar response to grazing method. When precipitation was 59% above normal, mean leaf area, forage and stolon dry weight, and stolon growing point density in June and August were unaffected by grazing method. These parameters were reduced under continuous stocking when precipitation was 32% below normal. Cultivar ranking for mean leaf area and petiole length was the same as that for leaf size: Grasslands Huin