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Giant sweet clover is great stuff but I've never heard of anyone planting it - except for me collecting the seeds and spreading them along the dirt road shoulder 
As I read it clover comes in Dutch white - the short plant with white flower prevelent in yards and pastures.
Mamoth Clover - about knee high with big purple flower that farmers like and bees ignore due to the flower size not allowing nectar collection.
Giant sweet white and/or yellow - up to waste tall or more, very stemmy with long thin flowers. Locally only found along roadways and on the worst soil possible. Never heard of it being usefull other than the nectar.
Please enlighten me if I got this wrongopcorn:
As I read it clover comes in Dutch white - the short plant with white flower prevelent in yards and pastures.
Mamoth Clover - about knee high with big purple flower that farmers like and bees ignore due to the flower size not allowing nectar collection.
Giant sweet white and/or yellow - up to waste tall or more, very stemmy with long thin flowers. Locally only found along roadways and on the worst soil possible. Never heard of it being usefull other than the nectar.
Please enlighten me if I got this wrong
opcorn:The white sweet clover I was on was planted as a soil builder, for the nitrogen and then turned under [about midway into the bloom] for the humus. His cattle also grazed it until a month or so before bloom. Sweet clover was the primary source used as a soil builder [nitrogen] until cheap chemical nitrogen came on the market. I personally think that you will begin to see its use increase because of the high cost of petroleum products. It will also grow an poor soils, has very deep root system and the stuff that I was on was very stemmie and 7+ feet tall. Flowers aren't long and thin either. Don't know about the yellow the the white flowers hang down [perfect size for bees and easily worked] and so the rain doesn't wash the nectar out. After a rain the bees start working it almost immediately again.Giant sweet white and/or yellow - up to waste tall or more, very stemmy with long thin flowers. Locally only found along roadways and on the worst soil possible. Never heard of it being usefull other than the nectar.
Please enlighten me if I got this wrong
Farmers have a habit of doing stuff like that but then that is when the plant is mature and reproducing (unlike humans)!
t:I've heard of 'winter wheat' that is planted in the fall to plow under in the spring. Neighbor planted sweet peas as a cover plant mixed with alphalfa. I used to think that alphalfa was not a nectar producer; either I was wrong or there is a different variety of alphalfa grown now. My bees are onto a farmers hay field like crazy just before he mows it down! I hate to think how many of the girls get mashed in that process.
I've considered offering him a pound jar for every week he postpones the mowing! 
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