Buckwheat brought to harvest??

martian

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No, it sounded a bit tricky. Richard Harding had a go growing it somewhere, but I don't think it was a huge success
 
I will try to harvest a plot this year and I have a friend who has done it. It's a common crop in former Soviet states to grow for harvest, but I don't know if they terminate it with diquat or similar. I hope to terminate it by cutting it a few days before harvest.
 
There was an interesting article in the John Deere mag that comes in the post about a Russian farmer (I think) who grows buckwheat. It was a while ago but could be on their website?

I've read that too. Alot of hectares around there apparently.

There's a guy in Sweden growing organic buckwheat which he process and sell via healthy/functional food-shops in for example Stockholm I believe. He says buckwheat pretty much yields the same where ever it is grown and he first came in contact with it in Canada.
 

Jim Bullock

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Frederic Thomas grows it in central France. I think he is planting it as a main crop this year drilled in late April early May, but he also double crops it after winter barley, and can sometimes combine it in October before drilling winter wheat, otherwise its just a cover crop.
 

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