The way I did my clover is first I soil tested and limed to get it to about a 7. I sprayed the patch in August to kill all the weeds and disc it in mid Sept. Around the first of Oct we planted BUck Forage Oats and I over seeded with Yucci Arrowleaf (white clover). The oats popped up quick and aroundlate Decthe cloveris big enough for grazing to start. Now I just disc in the clover in late Sept and plant my Oats and the clover keeps coming back every year. I don't bushhog, just let it go to seed. It doesn't seem the deer forage on the clover much in the summer anyway.