• Higher yields in grass-clover leys due to earlier devel-opment
• Better establishment in dry summers
• Seamless transition from cereals to grass-clover ley without ploughing or other soil tillage.
• After a few weeks, the fully-grown ley can be used for cutting or grazing.
• Rather well suppressing of annual weeds
Practical recommendation
• In spring (March/April), between tillering and bolting of the cereal, the catch crop is undersown (pref-erable before a wet period, since the crop cannot be rolled.).
• The catch crop is best sown with a seeder for grass-clover in combination with a harrow passage.
• Several clover mixtures are possible; farms without livestock may also use only white or red clover
