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LEGUMES

Biomass
Forage
Drought
Salinity
Warm Season Legumes Seeds Per Cold Kill Tolerance Production Quality Tolerance Comments
°F
Pound
Cowpeas (Red Ripper) 4,100 32 More viney type cowpea
Cowpeas (Iron and Clay) 4,100 32 Longer maturity cowpea
Mung Beans 7,000 32 More determinate than cowpeas
Guar 12,000 32 Beans stay in pods for winter stockpile grazing
Sunn Hemp 15,000 32 Fast growing
Soybeans 3,300 32 Long maturity and non GMO
Korean Lespedeza 200,000 32 Good for pasture interseed

Salinity
Forage
Biomass
Drought
Cool Season Legumes Seeds Per Cold Kill Tolerance Production Quality Tolerance Comments
Pound
°F
Spring Lentils (Indian Head) 21,000 20 Small seeded pulse
Winter Lentils (Morton) 21,000 0 Decent over wintering
Common Vetch 8,000 10 Lowest cost vetch
Woolly Pod Vetch 10,000 0 Fastest spring bloomer
Hairy Vetch 12,000 -20 Best over wintering legume

Spring Forage Peas (4010) 3,200 20 More forage than yellow peas
Winter Peas (Austrian) 4,000 5 Small seeded peas
Chickling Vetch 2,500 15 Great N fixer, larger seed
Faba Beans 2,000 15 Can tolerate cool, wet soils. Large seed

Chick Peas 3,000 20 More heat tolerant than other cool seasons
Crimson Clover 120,000 5 Fast growing clover
Berseem Clover (Balady) 150,000 20 Mediterranean type
Berseem Clover (Frosty) 150,000 10 Good cold tolerance for berseem

Balansa Clover (FIXatioN) 500,000 -5 Good winter hardiness
Arrowleaf Clover 270,000 15 Drought tolerant
Persian Clover 150,000 20 Mediterranean type
Hubam White Sweet Clover 240,000 25 Best summer clover

Yellow Sweet Clover 180,000 -10 Biannual - deep-rooted, saline soils
Subterranean Clover 150,000 20 Most shade tolerant
Ladino White Clover - perennial 500,000 -15 Long-lived perennial

Red Clover - perennial 190,000 -10 Short-lived perennial
Alsike Clover - perennial 450,000 -10 Tolerant of wet soils
Sainfoin - perennial 18,500 -15 Drought tolerant
Alfalfa - perennial 150,000 -15 Very productive legume

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