Solohead Farm

Farm Update - 19th November 2010

The research focuses on low input systems of milk production based on grass-white clover swards examining issues such as productivity, grazing management, persistency of clover is swards, nitrate leaching and emissions of nitrous oxide and ammonia.

Rolling grassland at Solohead Research Farm with the Galtee Mountain Range in the background

The current research programme is focused on white clover and 50 of the 52 ha on the farm are clover-based swards with an average clover content of 20 to 25% receiving annual fertilizer N input of between 0 and 100 kg N/ha.

The clover content of swards is around 5 to 15% of pasture DM during April (left) and 35 to 45% in August/September (right)