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Regen Ag General Discussion
Crimp rolling cover crops
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<blockquote data-quote="New Puritan" data-source="post: 4546294" data-attributes="member: 39018"><p>Just to explain a bit more about where I am coming from with this (probably seemingly aimless) post, I am a tenant on around 50 acres of crap grade 3 land on the south coast. I live half an hour's drive from it, have a full time job and a small child. My landlord lives on site but doesn't like lots of comings and goings from strangers. It's a requirement of the lease that it is certified organic.</p><p></p><p>This doesn't leave me much room for manoeuvre in terms of trying anything other than very conventional ploughing / power harrowing / drilling for crop establishment. As much as I would like to try mob grazing I am stuck with the flail mower for the time being.</p><p></p><p>The size of the farm limits what I am willing to spend / invest in machinery. I would quite like to replace the drill with a Moore Unidrill which would give me some more options (I think). I've singled these out as they have been about for ages and occasionally turn up cheaply.</p><p></p><p>So what I was thinking, is trying to select an appropriate cover crop to put in the autumn after a spring cereal, and then crimp that in the next spring and sow lentils through it. If I could find a low growing cover crop, perhaps the crimping would just set it back enough to allow the lentils through. I need something to intercrop the lentils with to support them a bit, so perhaps the cover crop could do both?</p><p></p><p>I think it would be very difficult to be no till throughout the rotation in organic, but I'd like to reduce ploughing to perhaps one year in 3, rather than 5 out of 6 years if I could.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="New Puritan, post: 4546294, member: 39018"] Just to explain a bit more about where I am coming from with this (probably seemingly aimless) post, I am a tenant on around 50 acres of crap grade 3 land on the south coast. I live half an hour's drive from it, have a full time job and a small child. My landlord lives on site but doesn't like lots of comings and goings from strangers. It's a requirement of the lease that it is certified organic. This doesn't leave me much room for manoeuvre in terms of trying anything other than very conventional ploughing / power harrowing / drilling for crop establishment. As much as I would like to try mob grazing I am stuck with the flail mower for the time being. The size of the farm limits what I am willing to spend / invest in machinery. I would quite like to replace the drill with a Moore Unidrill which would give me some more options (I think). I've singled these out as they have been about for ages and occasionally turn up cheaply. So what I was thinking, is trying to select an appropriate cover crop to put in the autumn after a spring cereal, and then crimp that in the next spring and sow lentils through it. If I could find a low growing cover crop, perhaps the crimping would just set it back enough to allow the lentils through. I need something to intercrop the lentils with to support them a bit, so perhaps the cover crop could do both? I think it would be very difficult to be no till throughout the rotation in organic, but I'd like to reduce ploughing to perhaps one year in 3, rather than 5 out of 6 years if I could. [/QUOTE]
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