Market briefing
Red clover
Trifolium pratense
- Estimated Market Range
- €5.04 – €7.56/kg
Modelled merchant asking prices, excluding VAT; source dates vary. Not a current supplier quotation.
Market watch · As of
- Trade unit value
- €4.95/kg
- Trade volume
- 434.78 t
Observed · 2026-06
Completed 2026-06
Current situation
Germany reports 2026 seed declarations. Earlier Irish reseeding payments do not establish mono-species orders.
What to watch
- Certified availability by ploidy and cultivar
- Red-clover inclusion in reseeding orders
B2B view
Compare ploidy, cultivar and germination for deliverable seed.
Trade & value
- Trade value
- €2,091,749
- Volume YoY
- +17.37%
Trade unit value YoY
- Trade unit value YoY
- +11.16%
Observed · 2026-06
Trade unit value history — €/kg
Latest available: €4.95/kg · 2026-06
Trade unit value = reported trade value divided by reported net weight. A customs indicator, not a seller quotation.
EU internal trade volume — tonnes
Leading exporters
- IT 23.04%
- DK 21.46%
- NL 17.32%
- PL 17.04%
- DE 10.86%
Completed 2026-06
Major corridors
- PL → DE 70.32 t
- NL → DE 69.4 t
- IT → DE 42.52 t
- DK → FR 40.11 t
- IT → FR 37.03 t
EU external trade
Completed 2026-06
- Exports outside EU
- 47.15 t
- Imports from outside EU
- 194.72 t
- Trade balance
- -147.58 t
EU-27 as a whole; reported third-country partners. Special territories excluded. Missing observations are not zero.
Supply evidence
Official seed-production evidence available.
- Years covered
- 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026
- Reported metrics
- Certified seed quantity · Certified seed area · Certified seed quantity · Seed multiplication area · Seed production area
Evidence & sources
Evidence basis
- Market situation
- DE_BSA_SEED_AUTHORITY
- Indicator
- Trade unit value · 2026-06; Trade volume · 2026-06
- Geography
- EU-27 · National / regional seed evidence
- Sources / provenance
- 37a5b41b2719315cb33a3785c67b349e82f13783cf0b90982a73d496b049590a
Evidence source identifiers; observation dates are not publication dates.
Historical seed evidence; not available stock.
Customs shipment value, not a seed offer.
National definitions remain separate; no combined EU production total is inferred.
CN / TARIC customs scope
Customs precision varies by commercial seed type.
Customs-group and parent-taxon quantities are not assigned to individual commercial forms.
EU-27 seed exports to EU and third-country destinations; representative customs-derived export unit value.
- 12092210 — Red clover "Trifolium pratense L." seed for sowing
Sources / provenance
- VAAD — Sēklaudzēšanas lauku platības
- UVHVVR — Pridelava uradno potrjenega semena 2024
- VAAD — Certified small-seeded legumes — public VAAD datastore
- VAAD — Sēklaudzēšanas lauku platības
- ÚKZÚZ — Přehled přihlášených množitelských ploch 2023, 1. a 2. část
- VAAD — Sēklaudzēšanas lauku platības
- VAAD — Sēklaudzēšanas lauku platības
- VAT — VAT seed certification statistics
- UVHVVR — Pridelava uradno potrjenega semena 2024
- VAAD — Sēklaudzēšanas lauku platības
- VAAD — Certified small-seeded legumes — public VAAD datastore
- UVHVVR — Pridelava uradno potrjenega semena 2025
- VAAD — Sēklaudzēšanas lauku platības
- VAT — VAT seed certification statistics
- BAES — Sommerungen gesamt ohne Sorten 2025
- VAAD — Sēklaudzēšanas lauku platības
- BAES — Sommerungen gesamt ohne Sorten 2025
- UVHVVR — Pridelava uradno potrjenega semena 2024
- VAAD — Sēklaudzēšanas lauku platības
- VAT — VAT seed certification statistics
- VAT — VAT seed certification statistics
- UVHVVR — Pridelava uradno potrjenega semena 2025
- ÚKSÚP — UZNANÉ MNOŽITEĽSKÉ PLOCHY V ROKU 2025
- ÚKSÚP — UZNANÉ MNOŽITEĽSKÉ PLOCHY V ROKU 2025
- ÚKZÚZ — Přehled přihlášených množitelských ploch 2025, 1. a 2. část
- VAAD — Sēklaudzēšanas lauku platības
- UVHVVR — Pridelava uradno potrjenega semena 2025
- ÚKSÚP — UZNANÉ MNOŽITEĽSKÉ PLOCHY V ROKU 2025
- ÚKZÚZ — Přehled přihlášených množitelských ploch 2024, 1. a 2. část
- ÚKSÚP — UZNANÉ MNOŽITEĽSKÉ PLOCHY V ROKU 2025
- VAT — VAT seed certification statistics
- MAPA — MAPA seed certification statistics
- VAAD — Sēklaudzēšanas lauku platības
- Eurostat — COMEXT DS-045409
- Bundessortenamt — Zur Feldbesichtigung gemeldete Saatgutvermehrungsflächen 2026 (ha)
- Bundessortenamt — Anerkannte Saatgutmengen (dt) 2025 (Wirtschaftsjahr 2025/2026)
Missing evidence is not zero. No interpolation or customs-group allocation.
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