News archive 201211/5-12
Keep your nitrogen at home with a catch crop in maize
Using a catch crop of Perennial Ryegrass, Cocksfoot or Red Fescue will reduce the need of bought-in fertilizer. A well developed grass sward can retain up to 50 kg N pr. ha, which can be partly used by the following crop – and at the same time protect the environment.
Read more here.
15/3-12
New varieties of beet for energy production
DLF‐TRIFOLIUM has recently introduced new varieties of beet which are suitable for biogas production as well as for traditional forage use. The varieties ENERMAX, ENERGARCI and SOLID have just been accepted on the Danish Variety List after two years of testing.
Read more about the beets in our press realease.
16/2-12
ForageSelect – Home for a great new project
DLF-TRIFOLIUM has launched a new website forageselect.com together with Aarhus University (AU). This site contains information about a project, in which the two partners have joined forces to implement Genome Wide Selection (GWS) into grass breeding.
Read more about the project here.
13/2-12 - 15/3-12
DLF-TRIFOLIUM invests €8 Million
With five new mixing and packing lines using the newest technology, DLF-TRIFOLIUM is setting new standards to improve its agility and flexibility to meet customers’ demands. The €8 Million investment is made in connection to the existing seed cleaning warehouse in Odense. The new 10,000 m² warehouse will be ready for use in July 2012.
Read more about the project in the latest edition of Prograss.
3/2-12 
Best friend of
Carbon Footprint
Do you know that the annual
oxygen production and carbon
dioxide fixation from one hectare
of natural turf exeeds that of
one hectare of forest?
Read more about this in the Professional turf newsletter
31/1-12 - 16/2-2012
Increase your profit with grass/legume
The economically optimal feed diet depends on various parameters; mainly on
the potential yield level of maize, clover grass and Lucerne and on the actual
prices on concentrates.
Read more about how you can increase your profit by having the right grass/legume balance in Forage Newsletter
16/1-12 - 13/2-12
Masterline Newsletter
4turf Perennial Ryegrass with extra power
Tretraploids are well known from forage grass situation and give extra power for yield and stress tolerance. DLF-TRIFOLIUM has managed to duplicate these benefits in genuine turf types of Perennial Ryegrass.
Read more about in Masterline Newsletter
5/1-12
Appointment: New Breeder in the Danish R&D Team
Entering 2012, it is a great pleasure for DLF-TRIFOLIUM to present our new grass breeder, Anders Søndergaard Larsen, who will enter the team at Danish Plant Breeding, Store Heddinge.
Anders is 34 years old and has a Master of Science in management of forestry and natural resources from the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University in Copenhagen. He also holds a Ph.D. degree in plant genetics from Copenhagen University, Faculty of Life Sciences. During the last year he has been working on the potential of grasses for bioenergy production as post-doc at Aarhus University, Department of Genetics and Biotechnology. The employment of Anders is a part of a generational change at the breeding station in Store Heddinge as our turf grass breeder Niels Christian Nielsen is planning to end his long career in the second half of 2012.
