cover crop ahead of Peas

Alistair Nelson

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Mixed Farmer
Location
E Yorks
We put in a mix of phacelia and spring oats worked well for us for 5 years now. Uncontroversial with other crops on rotation, cheap, simple and easy to establish and destroy.
 

Alistair Nelson

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
E Yorks
From the pgro work and the work done up here in east York’s be careful with radish before peas some can exaserpate foot root whereas others can reduce it. As always there’s radish and radish.
 

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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