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I have just finished seeding about 8 acres with a winter mix of oats, wheat, winter peas, and rye grass using a ground driven tow behind broadcast spreader behind my lawn tractor. The oats and wheat I mixed and spread. Then due to different seed sizes and settings, I spread the winter peas. Then spread the rye grass. This spreader will only cover about 6-10 ft per pass depending on the seed. I still need to over seed another 10-12 acres of pasture. There has got to be a better way!
How well does a 3 point spreader handle seed? I am thinking that one unit to handle fertilizer, lime, and seed would at least not break the budget.
 
Too bad you are in texas.. I have an old herd style seeder that works and is worth about $10 bucks.
Have you considered a 12v Herd trailer hitch seeder for your truck or tractor? My neighbors have used them for years to
overseed pastures. Check Craigslist.
 
They can scatter seed but they take a little doing to
calibrate light seed they don?t spread very far I was
looking at one the other day that goes on the tractor
it only spread about ten feet on grass seed but 40
on fertilizer
 
I reread your post. I have used a "cone" 3 pt spreader for years to spread fertilizer and seed both. In fact I have a
ton of bagged fertilizer for the smaller paddocks sitting in the barn right now. I will spread it with the cone
spreader. I may mix in a little clover seed to add some legumes to the pasture mix and I often spread orchard grass
seed over bare spots with it. It is not very precise, but it gets the job done. I bought mine 10 or 12 years ago for
under $100. The older rusted or dirty ones don't bring more than a couple hundred dollars at auction.

I have the farm service fertilize and lime the bigger fields. They charge $5/acre to spread fert or lime minimum
$200.
 
Clover will seed very easily on top of the ground, especially if it has a chance to frost seed. As I understand it when the ground freezes, even a little, it develops cracks. The seeds fall into the cracks and when they close with the spring rains the seed germinates. I can get a heck of a good stand of clover just spreading it on the ground. I have a source for white dutch clover, no good for hay, but great for pasture ground cover and adding nitrogen to the ground. Red clover will seed the same way. Clover only needs very shallow soil cover to germinate, I think even wet thatch will do it.
 
Normal to just broadcast clover on top in spring, just try to time puting on before the last freeze. That is the way all the hay was seeded into wheat for the next years hay crop. You might get a small crop of clover the year you seed in the winter in the wheat, next year is full crop of clover, the following year usually not worth keeping for hay as clover only lasts for one year. Timothy was usually seeded mixed in the clover seed. For the second year hay the clover would be thin but the timothy would be comming into its prime. Now Alfalfa is a different story,they are now fall seeding, August, it into the wheat ground, Last couple of years of hay had a alfal red clover grass mix for hay and think we did the broadcast in spring when ground was frozen but hard to remember details from 38+ years ago.
 
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