Morrow MS

Grow. Graze. Repeat. Morrow multi-stemmed (MS) red clover brings better grazing tolerance to your farm, plus high yield in summer and autumn.

Great pedigree

Morrow comes from a tough family. Most red clovers wouldn’t last long under intensive rotational dairy grazing on light, upper North Island soils. But Morrow’s parents did, growing well, even after repeated droughts.

We took plants from these pastures, and selected the best of them for high yield, persistence and flowering to create a multi-stemmed red clover with improved production and persistence under grazing.

Quality + yield when it counts

High energy and high yield together create ideal late spring and summer finishing feed, giving great quality as grass energy levels drop, and driving rapid liveweight gains for lambs and cattle.

Longevity

Red clover’s biggest drawback has always been limited persistence under grazing. Morrow’s improved grazing tolerance – helped by its high stem count and semi-prostrate form - means it will keep boosting production year on year. Like all red clovers it persists best on free-draining soils under a longer summer grazing round.

CRW tolerance

Red clover is less bothered than white clover by clover root weevil. Sow Morrow and you get more diverse pastures with strong legume content.

Free N

Red clover naturally fixes its own nitrogen. Based on its yield, Morrow can fix over 200kg N/ha, or about 25 kg/N per tonne of dry matter grown.

Phyto-oestrogen levels

Morrow has low-medium phyto-oestrogen levels. Even so, take care with ewes or hoggets 3-6 weeks either side of mating. High red clover intake at this time is best avoided.