How much N is actually available for a following winter crop after a clover/legume fallow?

[Humble Village Farmer]

Don't have an easy way to broadcast either.

Drill. The biggest cost is the seed. Crimson clover might work.

 

[Feldspar]

Mmmm in my amateur way getting to grips with cover crops just seems involve reading a whole load of jargon. I really like simplistic quantifiable benefits. For example my beans were sold for £1600/ha this year. Of course you’ll want to plough for them.

Rules for cover crops in my stewardship allow a no-tilled cover crop. Can't be harvested. Otherwise I just leave it bare and cultivate on 1 August when the option ends.

 

[Humble Village Farmer]

Rules for cover crops in my stewardship allow a no-tilled cover crop. Can't be harvested. Otherwise I just leave it bare and cultivate on 1 August when the option ends.

Would have said sunflowers vetch and phacelia, but I think sunflowers might be a bit pricey now.

 

[Fish]

Rather conflicting advice! Unless Fish will admit to farming not very heavy land?

, 60% medium loam/ 40% clay loam, most of the farm is undertrained with clay tiles.

last years effort, crimson, red and white, photo taken this feb after the crimson had all died. Heavy clay soil, (3 passes with the pw to make fist size lumps if you plough)

 

[fudge]

Rules for cover crops in my stewardship allow a no-tilled cover crop. Can't be harvested. Otherwise I just leave it bare and cultivate on 1 August when the option ends.

Thankfully my short attention span means I am unlikely to sign any management agreements. I tried to read the rules on numerous occasions but just couldn’t get my head round them.

 

[jpd]

none imo
i ploughed out a corner of a tillage field the i tried a ryegrass/redclover mix
3 x10/10/20 in the spring(oh the good times)
cut twice,no grazing
the barley/w barley on that plot has always been sickly