Greening question

[Case man]

Can you class barley and peas as a protein crop? Greening biggest load of rubbish in a livestock area when you need feed for livestock.

 

[Gator_boy9]

Peas yes but I don't think spring barley is

 

[warksfarmer]

Can you class barley and peas as a protein crop? Greening biggest load of rubbish in a livestock area when you need feed for livestock.

'Greening crops' are:

rye, vetch, phacelia, barley mustard, oats, alfalfa

You need to mix two or more of the above to qualify.

'Nitrogen fixing crops' and Greening are scored separately.

 

[Boysground]

I wouldn't mind a few words with some of the people who came up the these ideas. I grew peas last year as part of my greening and as far as I could work out you couldn't plant them in a mix with barley and then claim it as a protein crop.

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[Flat 10]

Can you really not claim that a protein crop if they are a certain percentage of the mix? Say over 80%.

 

[Boysground]

Thats how I understood it. Happy to be told Im wrong though.

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