United Kingdom
February 16, 2016
The Crop Evaluation and Certification Division of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) have just published the Grass and Clover Recommended List of varieties for 2016.
The List is now available for free download from the ‘Publications’ section on the Department’s website: The Crop Evaluation and Certification Division of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) have just published the Grass and Clover Recommended List of varieties for 2016.
The List is now available for free download from the ‘Publications’ section on the Department’s website: https://www.agriculture.gov.ie/media/migration/publications/2016/GrassWhiteCloverRecom2016080216.pdf
Performance data based on a Simulated Grazing (frequent cutting; 8 to 10 cuts per year) trial system is provided for nearly all of the perennial ryegrass varieties in the Intermediate and Late heading groups. It supplements the data based on a General Purpose 2–Cut Silage (i.e. 6 cuts per year, including two silage cuts) trial system, which is available for all varieties.
A new clover variety from IBERS named AberAce has made the 2016 list for clovers.
Outclassed grass varieties removed from the 2016 List are the Intermediate diploid Rodrigo, Intermediate tetraploids Giant and Trend, the Late diploid Mesquita and the Late tetraploid Abercraigs.
Each year DAFM test over 100 varieties of grass and white clover in replicated trials at five locations throughout the country. All new candidate varieties are tested against existing commercial Recommended List varieties over a minimum of two sowing years with each sowing harvested for two years, giving a total of four harvest years. Trials are grown on good quality soils in a manner conducive to selection of varieties most suited to good commercial farming practices.
Farmers should give preference to recommended varieties unless there is strong evidence that some other variety is more suited to their conditions.
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