Mr. David Hagan:

On the red clover, I think the Deputy was referring to bloat in the cows. In our experiment, animals were assigned to their swards at the start and they were on it for their lifetimes. Therefore, they are not changing their diet. Bloat happens in animals when they go onto clover-rich swards after they have perhaps been on a bare sward. Animals eating multispecies sward all the time do not suffer from that effect. The other point in this regard is that there are standard management techniques that can get over this problem as well, such as using bloat oils and ensuring that hungry cattle are not put on the swards, etc. We can manage the problem in that way. As Dr. Gilliland said earlier, we recommend that groups be put on multispecies sward and be kept there, or at least have them there for some length of time.

Turning to the subject of lime-----