Over the warmer months, red clover has the highest animal performance of any grazing species, but historically its biggest drawback has always been limited persistence under grazing.
"Morrow's improved grazing tolerance means it will keep boosting production year on year. Like all red clovers, Morrow will persist best on free-draining soils under a longer summer grazing round," says pasture systems agronomist Jen Corkran.
It has topped Barenbrug Agriseeds plant density trials, which measure how many red clover plants are left after two years in intensively grazed trials.
High ME and high DM together create ideal late spring, summer and autumn grazing when the feed quality of grasses starts to drop off in the heat of summer.
In addition, Morrow fixes its own nitrogen, feeding it naturally into pasture systems in a slow and continual way. This will be ever more important to provide N on farm, as fertiliser comes under increasing environmental scrutiny.
Morrow can fix over 200kg N/ha per year, based on its yield (about 25kg N/ha per tonne of DM grown).
Another important benefit of red clover is the increased clover root weevil tolerance over white clover, helping provide species diversity and extra legume content in your pasture.
Visually, Morrow is more prostrate than the classic very upright hay-type red clover cultivars, which gives it much more persistence under grazing.
System-wise, Morrow is ideal as a component of innovative pasture mixes for both short-term, high performance combinations, and longer term pastures.
It has an excellent fit with a wide range of other pasture cultivars, including Shogun hybrid ryegrass, Captain CSP plantain and perennial ryegrasses such as Trojan and Viscount.
It can also be planted as a straight sward. Morrow is available for autumn sowing.
