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DLF Start growing your return today DLF ALFALFA – START GROWING YOUR RETURN TODAY DLF Alfalfa is a catalyst for enhanced farm profitability. It makes farm production easier, more reliable, and more self-sufficient. Everyone can benefit. Our range of alfalfa varieties and mixtures suits a broad sweep of markets, soils, and climates. It gives more farmers than ever before the ability to grow thriving crops. forage crops. It increases the proportion of home-grown protein, which reduces your vulnerability to fluctuating commodity prices and improves farm profitability. BE SELF-SUFFICIENT: GROW MORE PROTEIN IN YOUR OWN FIELDS DLF Alfalfa is the world’s largest forage crop for one simple reason: It offers farmers a superior protein content. A field containing DLF Alfalfa gives you more protein than most other A productive livestock herd needs plenty of protein. DLF Alfalfa has protein in abundance. With a protein content between 18% and 20%, DLF Alfalfa often generates more than 3.000 kg of protein per hectare. It produces more protein than forage grass (14%) or maize silage (9%). PROTEIN CONTENT OF FORAGE CROPS 20 18 16 14 Protein content (%) 12 10 8 6 4 2 0 Alfalfa (bud stage) Forage grass (beginning of heading) Maize silage Source: Essais multilocaux sur les potentialités de production et de valeur alimentaire des associations graminées – Luzerne (Multi-site trials on the production and nutritional potential of grasses – alfalfa). Association Française pour la Production Fourragère (AFPF), 2016. By D. Knoden, M. Hautot and C. Decamps DLF ALFALFA - PROTEIN CONTENT Protein content of DLF Alfalfa varieties 19,8 19,6 19,4 19,2 19 18,8 18,6 Cigale Musette Andantino Mezzo Sibemol Ludelis Source: French official list – 2013-2023 official testing of DLF Alfalfa 2
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DLF Start growing your return today OPTIMISE YOUR DRY-MATTER YIELD: GROW DLF ALFALFA WITH DLF GRASSES DLF Alfalfa is an excellent nutritional partner for forage grasses. Growing DLF Alfalfa together with our high-performance forage grasses, you can achieve an optimal energy-to-protein ratio. In temperate regions, the dry-matter yield achieved from a combination of DLF Alfalfa and grass is greater than it would be from forage grass alone. During trials conducted in Belgium on grass and grass-alfalfa mixtures, the grass-alfalfa mixtures produced an average yield increase of 30%. The biggest difference between the two groups occurred during spring and summer droughts. That’s when the benefit shines out most strongly. AVERAGE RELATIVE DRY-MATTER YIELD Ton dm/ha (rel.) 135 125 115 105 95 Brome + lucerne Cocksfoot + lucerne Tall fescue + lucerne Lucerne Cocksfoot + tall fescue + lucerne Cocksfoot + tall fescue + ryegrass Cocksfoot + tall fescue Tall fescue Cocksfoot Brome Grasses received up to 300 kg N/ha/year. 100 = average of all mixtures and species. Data from the two sites best suited for alfalfa. The third site was still in favour of alfalfa, with +5% higher average yield. Source: Essais multilocaux sur les potentialités de production et de valeur alimentaire des associations graminées – Luzerne (Multi-site trials on the production and nutritional potential of grasses – alfalfa). Association Française pour la Production Fourragère (AFPF), 2016. By D. Knoden, M. Hautot and C. Decamps DLF ALFALFA - DRY-MATTER PRODUCTION Total dry-matter production (Rel.) 106 105 104 103 102 101 100 99 98 97 Sibemol Musette Source: French official list – 2013-2023 official testing of DLF Alfalfa Cigale Andantino Mezzo Ludelis 3
