Multi-season Crops

Once established correctly these crops have the potential to generate cost-effective home grown feed for several years.  By establishing this type of crop you avoid spending money each year on fuel for cultivation and drilling operations.

In addition these legume crops both fix atmospheric nitrogen – with the cost of fertiliser having spiralled in recent years this has now become a very valuable ‘bonus’ to all farmers in the UK.

Lucerne
The realisation that lucerne offers such a high protein content – good drought tolerance and is relatively long lived – has prompted a revival of interest on this very underrated crop.  Lucerne can be baled for hay or made into big bale silage and its potential will be in the order of 14-15 tonnes of DM/ha/year.  The crop can provide excellent yields for three full years (following a summer sowing).

Red Admiral Red Clover Blend
Farm scale trials have proven that this blend can deliver consistently high yields of protein rich forage for three full harvest years. It contains a blend of diploid and tetraploid varieties which cover a range of flowering dates enabling up to three cuts to be taken every year.

Dormal ®
Pre-inoculant now available for Red Admiral Clover Blend

• Inoculation with Clover Rhizobium has proven to improve establishment, increase the Clover Plant population and maximise the efficient fixation of atmospheric nitrogen.
• Dormal bacteria for true Clovers and Lucerne are scientifically selected strains with high activity and stress tolerance, making
  it an efficient and reliable product.
• Dormal adheres to the seed in the form of dormant spores which will germinate with the seed and colonise the root zone.
• Dormal has a long shelf-life and therefore disposes of the task of inoculating the seeds at the point of drilling.
• The improved establishment leads to fewer weeds.
• Improved N status in soil for following crops.