- Location
- Romsey, Hampshire
Just some thoughts on the subject of including leys in the rotation mix. It seems to me having listened to several lectures on you tube etc of speakers in the US that they are achieving quick soil improvement and subsequent benefit from having fallow years using cover crops in the fallow as a green manure or livestock feed. When using for livestock they are mob grazing and so trampling a lot of the green for soil improvement. I saw another one recently that Will Scale flagged up on the BFF presentation sticky of Gabe Brown talking and it does seem that part of his succeess is fallow years. It made me wonder what we could do here in the Uk and I started to think along the following lines. Any thoughts?
WBarley/cover crop mix rye and vetches?/Millet mix as a grazing crop/cover crop of forage rape/ Spring Oats/ WW
Effectively 3 separate cover crops in a row but only one year out of ceral production (3 separate grazing events). Oats would probably need very little inputs after the cover.
WBarley/cover crop mix rye and vetches?/Millet mix as a grazing crop/cover crop of forage rape/ Spring Oats/ WW
Effectively 3 separate cover crops in a row but only one year out of ceral production (3 separate grazing events). Oats would probably need very little inputs after the cover.