Legumes
We offer a diverse selection of legumes, including a variety of clovers and lucerne, to suit a wide range of agricultural needs. Our high-quality legumes are ideal for improving soil fertility through natural nitrogen fixation, enhancing forage quality for livestock, and supporting sustainable farming practices. Whether you're establishing a productive pasture, improving soil health, or diversifying your crop rotations, our legumes provide reliable and versatile solutions.
Clovers
Alsike Clover
Trifolium hybridum​
Sowing rate: 6kg per acre
Alsike Clover is a low-growing, short-term perennial that fixes nitrogen and thrives in acidic or waterlogged soils. It can survive over winter, provided temperatures are not excessively cold. With a slower growth habit and less aggressiveness than other clovers, it produces pollen-rich flower heads throughout the summer, attracting pollinators. However, it can cause bloat in livestock if consumed in large quantities.
Strawberry Clover
Trifolium fragiferum
Sowing rate: 2.75–4.5kg per acre
Strawberry Clover is a hardy perennial ground cover plant known for its persistence and tolerance to drought, waterlogging, and salinity. Its resilience makes it an ideal choice for challenging soil conditions, providing stable ground cover year-round.
Subterranean Clover
Trifolium subteranean
Sowing rate: 6kg per acre
Subterranean Clover is a low-lying annual legume with a deep rooting system that helps improve soil structure and enhances soil fertility. Its ability to fix nitrogen makes it a valuable addition to crop rotations for boosting soil health.
Yellow Blossom Clover
Melilotus officinalis
Sowing rate: 4kg per acre
Yellow Blossom Clover, also known as Sweet Clover, is a fast-growing, vigorous biennial with large, deep taproots that help break up compacted soils, improving soil structure and drainage. Additionally, it has nitrogen-fixing capabilities, making it beneficial for enhancing soil fertility.
Vetches
Common Vetch
Vicia sativa
Sowing rate: 34kg per acre
Common Vetch, or Tares, is an annual legume valued for its nitrogen-fixing ability and frost tolerance. Its scrambling growth habit creates a dense cover, effectively smothering weeds and making it highly competitive in suppressing unwanted vegetation.
Pannonica Vetch
Vicia pannonica
Sowing rate: 20-24kg per acre
Pannonica Vetch, or Hungarian Vetch, is a nitrogen-fixing, winter-hardy crop that establishes quickly to provide dense ground cover. It features white flowers and slightly hairy stems, making it both functional and visually distinctive in agricultural systems.
Winter Vetch
Vicia villosa
Sowing rate: 30kg per acre
Winter Vetch, or Hairy Vetch, is a fast-germinating annual forage legume with excellent winter hardiness, making it an ideal winter cover crop. Its nitrogen-fixing abilities enhance soil fertility, while its scrambling growth habit provides effective ground cover.
Miscellaneous
Birdsfoot Trefoil (Ag)
Lotus corniculatus
Sowing rate: 5kg per acre
Birdsfoot Trefoil is a winter-hardy, protein-rich, medium-term perennial legume known for its nitrogen-fixing abilities. As a bloat-safe forage, it offers additional benefits by helping to combat parasitic nematodes and reducing methane emissions. However, it is sensitive to heavy grazing, so rotational grazing is advised to maintain plant health and productivity.
Yellow Trefoil
Medicago lupulina
Sowing rate: 4kg per acre
Yellow Trefoil, or Black Medick, is a leafy, low-growing annual or biennial legume that thrives in most soil types, except highly acidic ones. It excels at fixing nitrogen and provides effective weed suppression, making it a valuable addition to sustainable farming practices.
Blue Lupin
Lupinus angustifolius
Sowing rate: 25kg per acre
Blue Lupin is a nitrogen-fixing annual legume that boosts soil fertility. Turning it under before full bloom maximises nitrogen levels, while its deep taproots help break up soil compaction and improve drainage.
White Lupin
Lupinus albus
Sowing rate: 23-73kg per acre
White Lupin is a drought-tolerant legume that thrives in medium-heavy loamy soils with a pH of 6.5-7.3. It effectively fixes atmospheric nitrogen, converting it into a form readily available for plants.
Forage Peas
Pisum sativum
Sowing rate: 35kg per acre
Forage Pea is a nitrogen-fixing legume with deep roots that help break up soil compaction. It produces high-protein forage and can be undersown for added versatility in cropping systems.
Lucerne
Medicago sativa
Sowing rate: 8kg per acre
Lucerne, or Alfalfa, is a long-term perennial clover widely used as a green manure. Drought-resistant and nitrogen-fixing, it thrives in free-draining, alkaline soils. Best suited for silage for cattle and sheep due to its risk of causing bloat when grazed, Lucerne offers a high annual yield of around 14t DM per hectare when cut three times a year.
Sainfoin
Onobrychis vicifolia
Sowing rate: 35kg per acre
Sainfoin is a high-yielding, drought-resistant legume with excellent frost tolerance. While it can be cut or grazed, heavy grazing and poaching should be avoided. It is particularly effective at repairing tired arable land, as ploughing it in contributes significant residual nitrogen and fertility for the next crop. Additionally, Sainfoin is a natural anthelmintic and does not cause bloat.
Also available:
Grazing Lucerne
Sowing Rate – 4Kg/acre
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Lesser Trefoil (Suckling Clover)
Sowing Rate – 4Kg/acre
Serradella
Sowing Rate – 5Kg/acre