Fall seeding

If you have any Alfalfa left in your seeding and you overseed with Alfalfa the old stand will kill the new.Better to seed Clover. And you probably need to mow the field . I would surmise that the weeds have gone to seed by now so you will be reseeding them. Without looking at the field my opinion is spray and plow this spring if you want to establish a good seeding.

and alfalfa seed is very expensive. If you want to plant it, do it right. Otherwise you can frost seed clover in the spring. Never seems to work for me if i seed in fall

Clover is excellent hay if and that is a big if made right. Fortunately for me I have horse hay customers with no brood mares as Clover affects vitamin k in hoses and Cattle. Vitamin k helps blood clot so a foaling mare could hemorrhage while delivering. I always frost seed in March and that has worked well for me. My hay fields consist of Alfalfa, Bearcat Red Clover.Bearcat is a name brand of Red Clover that is supposed to last up to 3 years. The rest of my Hay fields are Meadow GrasS, Brome Grass and Timothy. I have weeded out the non paying customers and the rest like my Hay. With the price of inputs and the age of my equipment and operator I don't know how much longer I can do hay!

I have sowed clover in winter wheat in the winter.  Cut the wheat and bale red clover and wheat straw in august.   My cows love it, clean wheat straw and weeds up no left over.

I have heard of coagulation issues with sweet clover( that is actually where coumadin originally synthesized. ) but I didn't realize red clover could do that. Freedom from Brandenburg is a long lived variety I have had good luck with. Totally agree about rained on clover may be worse than combining oats when it comes to dust.