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By what percentage have cover crops increased the bottom line of your business?
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<blockquote data-quote="robbie" data-source="post: 7139164" data-attributes="member: 7037"><p>For me I dont think it's really a +or -.</p><p>As with all thinks sold to farmers it's all about margin for someone else and these fancy mixes are a real money spinner for the companies selling them but if you shop around and buy straight bags of seed and mix them up the cost is reasonable.</p><p></p><p>I sow them of the back of a cultivator and that would be going through weather I was seeing it not.</p><p></p><p>Either I'm payed by someone who grazes them which give or take covers seed cost and I get the "golden hoof" effect or I plough them in in spring and get the organic matter which is always welcome on lightland and in itself covers the seed price.</p><p></p><p>If I had to use glyphosate and spray them off or if I was on heavy ground which needed ploughing over before xmas I wouldnt bother but ahead of spring barley or beet or even late drilled autumn cereals they work well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="robbie, post: 7139164, member: 7037"] For me I dont think it's really a +or -. As with all thinks sold to farmers it's all about margin for someone else and these fancy mixes are a real money spinner for the companies selling them but if you shop around and buy straight bags of seed and mix them up the cost is reasonable. I sow them of the back of a cultivator and that would be going through weather I was seeing it not. Either I'm payed by someone who grazes them which give or take covers seed cost and I get the "golden hoof" effect or I plough them in in spring and get the organic matter which is always welcome on lightland and in itself covers the seed price. If I had to use glyphosate and spray them off or if I was on heavy ground which needed ploughing over before xmas I wouldnt bother but ahead of spring barley or beet or even late drilled autumn cereals they work well. [/QUOTE]
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