Making red clover silage at Gurteen College
Ken Flynn, farm manager and lecturer at Gurteen College, Agricultural College in Co Tipperary. Picture: Dan Linehan
Traditionally, we reseeded fields with just one kg of white clover in the grass seed mix, but since 2022 we have started including two kg of white clover seed into the mix, and when you think of the number of seeds in one kilo of clover seed, that’s a lot of extra seeds.
After establishment, we cut the nitrogen applications by 50% in the fields with the clover to try to stop the grass from overpowering the clover as it establishes itself.
