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Lone, Finland/Red Clover, 4n Supreme Yield and Quality
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Very high yield of forage Tetraploid variety Good regrowth Good winterhardiness |  |
Adapted to the North
LONE is a tetraploid, Norwegian variety of red clover, bred by Planteforsk and in the official Norwegian, North-Swedish and Finnish trials, LONE has shown stable and very high yields in Green- and drymatter. Tetraploid varieties are normally more vigorously growing than diploid, and here LONE is no exception. LONE is not very early flowering, but gives anyway a very high yield in first cut. The regrowth is very vigorous - resulting in a high total yield.
Fine Results in Finland
Lone has participated in the national variety testing in Finland and the results show a very high yield of drymatter - especially in Zone 2 and 3. The yield in 1st. year is the highest among the tested varieties - 15% more than the control variety. The winterdamage of Lone is medium to low in zone 2 and 3. Lone is suited in mixtures for silage in the southern and central part of Finland.
Yield of drymatter, relative, all zones

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Yield of drymatter, relative, zone 2 and 3  Source: Official variety testing, Finland 1997-2004. MTT.
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