Dr. Pat Dillon:

Yes, I agrees that legumes such as red and white clover are very important. Red clover is especially important for producing biomass for AD plants. For the last number of years, we in the Grange animal and grassland research centre have been doing research on this plant. We are now getting up to 20 tonnes of dry matter per hectare from it using just slurry, without any chemical fertiliser. There are opportunities with the legumes and we can also add the forages, plantain and chicory for example. Legumes have a really important role to play in reducing chemical nitrogen and producing high yields of product. There is no doubt about that.