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Late variety of crimson clover for protein-rich forage, cover crops or beauty

• Late flowering
• Increased the flexibility of exploitation
• Maintains its food value for longer
• For early exploitation in spring
• Non-meteorizing
• Approved in organic farming

• Very good productivity
• Excellent fodder or cover crop, green manure
• Upright, 60-80 cm tall plants
• Tap roots
• Flowers about 20 days later compared to traditional varieties
• Due to later flowering, longer suitable for fodder, higher green mass yields
• Good resistance to frost and diseases
• Seed yield can reach 600-800 kg/ha
• Like all other legumes, improves soil fertility
• Thanks to a good, very dense and quite deep root system, improves soil structure
• Fixes atmospheric nitrogen
• Grows quickly and covers the soil well
• Effective for weed control
• Optimal soil pH – 6.2-7
• Likes water-permeable soils
• Likes loamy, calcareous soils
• Should not be grown on light, sandy, dry soil
• Very good nutritional value of feed, high in protein
• Does not cause meteorism in animals
• Can be used for hay, silage
• When grown pure, 20-30 tons/ha of easily digestible fresh fodder can be obtained
• Crimson clover should be cut for fodder at the latest at the beginning of flowering
• Can be grown with Italian ryegrass, Egyptian clover, vetches, oats, but does not like competition from other plants
• When grown together with vetches and ryegrass, the quality and quantity of the mixture improves
• Suitable for organic farms

The varietal parameters may differ from those indicated here when the testing circumstances differ from quondam