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Do oats do much in a cover crop mix?

Warnesworth

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BASE UK Member
Location
Chipping Norton
Yes, expect so. More likely than peas.
Still some ground to plant after spring barley and would like to put beans in there as per my previous post. If any opinions on seed rates?
I think your mix of "30kgs/acre of beans plus 10 of vetch and 20 of oats" sounds fine too me without knowing the soil etc. Should be quite cheap too if you have the beans and the oats in the shed.
 

BSH

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BASE UK Member
I put in black oats in my mix and reckon they are worthwhile. They grow to twice the size of normal oats or rye volunteers and are the first thing the cattle eat. Expensive though!
 

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Webinar: Expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive offer 2024 -26th Sept

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On Thursday 26th September, we’re holding a webinar for farmers to go through the guidance, actions and detail for the expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) offer. This was planned for end of May, but had to be delayed due to the general election. We apologise about that.

Farming and Countryside Programme Director, Janet Hughes will be joined by policy leads working on SFI, and colleagues from the Rural Payment Agency and Catchment Sensitive Farming.

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