Durana White Clover For Pastures & Hay
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Characteristics of Durana White Clover

Yield Up Brand Denotes Pennington’s Best.
Durana white clover qualifies to be a Yield Up brand because of its superior persistence under grazing. Durana is a durable, all purpose white clover you can count on to persist under grazing, compete in tall fescue and bermuda grass sod, maintain a long stand life, provide a high quality diet to grazing animals, and fix soil nitrogen to share with companion grasses. This means less if any commercial nitrogen based fertilizers which deplete the soil!

Durana Clover is a medium leafed intermediate white variety of clover that was developed from naturally occurring ecotypes of white clover growing and surviving as volunteer plants in northern Georgia. Read about the advantages of planting Durana Clover in this PDF document.

Durana Clover features a high number of stolons which spread prostrate across the ground and rooting at each node along the stolon sending roots into the ground. At each node junction it is like a new plant has formed as new leaves are produced creating a new "sub plant". This allows Durana to form a dense mass of palatable and nutritious leaves. This growth habit also allows Durana to better persist and withstand grazing pressure and weather stresses.

Adaptation Map For Durana Clover

Durana Clover is a cool season perennial legume that grows well from eastern Texas and Oklahoma across the south to the Atlantic coast and north along a line from Macon, GA to Dallas, TX. In the Pacific Northwest, and in river valleys and irrigated pastures of the intermountain region. Please refer to the map provided here. Durana persists well under grazing.

Uses For Durana Clover

Durana is highly persistent under grazing and is best used to enrich existing, unimproved cool or warm season grass pastures, especially if ridding a pasture of toxic fescue is not an option. Excellent for grazing fall through early summer. Durana increases the attractiveness and nutritional value of wildlife (especially deer and turkey) food plots, alone or in a mixture.

Research and ranch experiences repeatedly demonstrate the superior feed value of a white clover-grass mixture compared to grass alone. Improvements in conception rates, milk production, calf weaning weights, daily gains and animal health can be realized. Durana-grass mixtures may also be used for high-quality hay or silage. Durana also captures atmospheric nitrogen - 50 to 125 lbs. per acre per year.

Nutritional Value Of Durana Clover

Durana Clover produces 18 to 28% crude protein and total digestible nutrients (TDN) ranging from 65 to 85%. Highest values will be obtained with a vegetative to 10% bloom harvest. Maturity of the crop at harvest will determine individual results.

Planting Durana Clover

• Rate:
  3 lbs./acre drilled or broadcast into established pastures
  5 lbs./acre for a pure stand.
• Date: September - November in the southern U.S. Frost seeded - February and March. Spring seeded in late March or April.
• Method: Graze or clip pasture close prior to seeding.
• Depth: 1/4inch maximum - many stand failures result from seed planted too deep.

BENEFITS & MANAGEMENT:

Durana seed is pelletized with a coating of lime and selected Rhizobia strains for optimal nitrogen fixation and once established and nodulated will not require the addition of nitrogen. Clip or harvest surplus forage in under stocked pastures. Under continuous grazing, keeping the grass height at 2 to 6 inches will help maintain the clover and control the grass and weeds.

Fertilizer:

Liming to a pH of 6.0 and providing adequate levels of potassium and phosphorus are necessary to ensure a productive clover stand. Soil testing is highly recommended; see your local county extension office for details.

SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS When Using Durana Clover As A Forage

Bloat can be a problem for animals on pastures with a large proportion (>35%) of white clover. Bloat-preventative supplement materials are recommended.