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Key benefits
- Provides multiple cuts of high quality forage
- Combining the yield of the grasses with the additional protein from the clover blend
- Prota Red 'fixes' up to 200kg/Ha of nitrogen
- High clover content can help animals finish faster and with better carcass characteristics
Considerations
- Mixtures with high clover content benefit from a soil pH of 6 or more and close attention to P and K levels
When to sow
PROTA SILE will grow at soil temperatures of down to 5°C, enabling the growing season to be extended. Clover will germinate at 10°C.
When to utilise
Three cuts of high protein forage can be taken from this highly productive mixture. Both grass and clover heading dates have been matched to ensure a consistent, quality crop of silage.
Post-cutting grazing is ideal for finishing lambs or grazing young cattle. Breeding sheep should avoid all red clover sources for six weeks pre-tupping until six weeks after tupping as phytoestrogens can affect the breeding cycle and conception rates.
Cover crop
An ideal cover crop for arable rotations, helping to improve soil quality, organic matter and provide other benefits. Cover crops can bring agronomic and environmental benefits with the active growth, rooting, ground cover and habitat provision providing benefits in rotations over a bare fallow and helping to reduce nutrient losses via run-off and leaching. Cover crops can also benefit soil physical and biological characteristics, leading to benefits in soil structure, potentially reducing erosion.
Note
Red clover should be overwintered between 4-6cm
Available as an organic mixture.