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Lucerne - Artémis

A highly nutritious forage for livestock

  • Highly nutritious forage for livestock
  • Good digestibility with high protein
  • Well managed, this perennial crop can persist for up to 5 year
  • Performs well in free-draining, drier environments
  • Dairy
  • Beef
  • Sheep

Utilisation: Grazing / silage

Sowing period: Spring

Utilisation period: Year-round

Days to maturity: 40 days

 

Advantages

 

  • Dual purpose cutting or grazing
  • High quality and high protein, which is easily digested
  • Deep tap roots lend lucerne drought tolerance and nutrient efficiency, and help to improve soil structure and drainage

 

Limitations

 

  • Requires soil pH 6.0 and above and high levels of P to establish
  • Requires specialised management

 

Sowing rate: 8-10kg/acre (20-25kg/ha)

Pack size: 25kg

Composition
Variety
Species
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Artémis
Lucerne
Specifications
Sowing rate/acre
8-10kg
Sowing rate/ha
20-25kg
Pack size
25kg
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Despite being a highly nutritious form of forage for livestock, lucernes are some of the most underrated and underutilised forage crops in the UK.

 

Although lucerne can be grazed, it is most useful as silage and is therefore well-suited to zero-grazing systems (fresh feeding) and for making silage.

Despite being a highly nutritious form of forage for livestock, lucernes are some of the most underrated and underutilised forage crops in the UK.

 

Although lucerne can be grazed, it is most useful as silage and is therefore well-suited to zero-grazing systems (fresh feeding...

Despite being a highly nutritious form of forage for livestock, lucernes are some of the most underrated and underutilised forage crops in the UK.

 

Although lucerne can be grazed, it is most useful as silage and is therefore well-suited to zero-grazing systems (fresh feeding) and for making silage.