Farm View: Red vs white clover - let's weigh up your options
Red clover may be nearly as good a feed crop as maize for intensive dairy or beef.
Red clover swards sound like the perfect solution, as the rising price of fertiliser adds huge costs to Ireland's grass-based farming.
In Teagasc trials, red clover and perennial ryegrass sward without nitrogen fertiliser yielded 13 to 16 tonnes per hectare of dry matter, which is about the same yield as perennial ryegrass getting 600 kg per hectare of nitrogen.
