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High yielding alfalfa with a high-quality forage with a high leaves/stem ratio, suitable for cooler climate

• Very high production potential
• Suited for a frequent cut management
• Very fast regrowth after each cutting
• Very early start up after winter
• High content in digestible proteins
• Good winterhardiness
• Adapted to a very extended cultivation area

• High yield potential
• High production per hectare
• Early spring re-growth (early fodder)
• Good yields even in dry years
• The plants are tall, erect, abundantly leafy
• Good leaf/stem ratio
• Flowering time – medium
• Suitable for frequent cutting
• Regenerates quickly after each cut
• Plants are very productive, 4-5 harvests are possible
• Winter hardiness – good
• Resistance to cold – high
• Resistance to diseases – high
• Resistance to drought – high
• Plants – 30-90 cm tall, with roots reaching up to 3 m or deeper
• A well-developed root system provides high resistance to summer heat and drought
• Alfalfa is suitable both for raw fodder for direct feeding and for hay, as it contains many nutrients and proteins, vitamins
• High amount of digestible proteins
• Fodder made from plants of this variety is well digestible
• Recommended for haymaking and hay production by drying
• Hay is mowed when plants are in full bloom
• To increase the energy value of the feed, you can combine alfalfa with grasses, which will balance the amount of protein and carbohydrates
• Good pre-crop because it enriches soil with nitrogen, potassium, calcium and phosphorus. It also significantly improves soil structure; the roots enrich the soil with organic matter
• Can be under-sown in barley crop
• Nectareous plants
• Fixes and accumulates nitrogen, needs less nitrogen for fertilization
• Yield (annual yield index in 5 locations with 5 harvests (2020) or 4 harvests (2021) – 5.7 points
• Quality – 3.3 points
• Development in early stages – 2.5 points
• Competitiveness – 4.2 points
• Persistence– 4.9 points
• Resistance/tolerance to winter cold – 3.9 points
• Resistance/tolerance to leaf diseases – 4.9 points
• Resistance/tolerance to alfalfa wilt – 2.5 points
• DOM (digestible organic matter) – 5.0 points
• Stability – 3.9 points
• Stem texture – 5.2 points
• Index – 4.19 points

**Source: 2019-2021 results of harvest studies and observations in Switzerland. Ergebnisse der Ertragserhebungen und Beobachtungen in den Jahren 2019 bis 2021 Luzerne: Zwei neue Sorten für den schweizerischen Futterbau empföllen | Pflanzenbau / Agrarforschung Schweiz 14: 1–7, 2023

• Yield – 4.0 points
• Germination speed – 2.8 points
• Regrowth in spring – 3.6 points
• Competitiveness – 4.3 points
• Persistence – 3.0 points
• Resistance to leaf diseases – 3.1 points
• Resistance to verticillium – 2.9 points
• Resistance to lodging – 6.0 points
• Plant height – 5.3 points
• Digestibility – 5.7 points

*According to French research (published in Recherche Agronomique Suisse 8 (1): 2017 p. 2)

The advantages of coated seeds:

• Allows more precisely to incorporate small size seeds with low sowing rate
• Protect seed from mechanic stress caused by sowing machines
• Protect seed from birds and insects - in fact coating components are not toxic but they don’t even attract them
• The extra-resistance of the coating avoids dust leakage and dust accumulation in the sowing machine
• Have less hard-seed content which means higher immediate germination percentage on the establishment of crop

The advantages of inoculated seeds:

• Rapid and safe establishment of the plant
• Plants have at their disposal high quantities of nitrogen fixed by the Rihizobia
• Saving in fertilization
• More productive plants
• High quality forage with maximum protein content in the plant

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