Data from: Evaluating the effects of cotton intercropping on cool‐season perennial forage persistence, forage mass, and nutritive value in the southeastern United States

This is digital research data corresponding to a published manuscript,
Evaluating the effects of cotton intercropping on cool-season perennial
forage persistence, forage mass, and nutritive value in the southeastern
United States, in Agronomy Journal.   Integrated forage–row
cropping systems provide important agronomic and economic benefits to
producers. However, little attention has been given to incorporating
forages into row crop systems unique to the southeastern United States.
This study assessed the viability of intercropping cotton (Gossypium
hirsutum L.) on perennial, cool-season legumes during the summer months in
the Southeast Coastal Plain over two production years. Treatments included
a weedy fallow, annual ryegrass (ARG; Lolium multiflorum Lam.)
monoculture, a red clover (RC; Trifolium pratense L.) and white clover
(WC; Trifolium repens L.) mixture, and a three-species mixture of ARG, RC,
and WC. Plots were established in fall 2020 with forage grown until May
2021 and 2022, when plots were strip-tilled and planted with cotton.
Cotton was managed with minimal herbicide use to preserve perennial
clovers.