wellingtonfarmer
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Anyone consistently had success growing lupins?
Anyone consistently had success growing lupins?
Thanks for response.
do you out any n in the seedbed? Do they need to be inoculated? Consistent I meant consistently grows them. Growing them for own use. I assume they dd ok if you are growing them.
I think selling the things is the biggest faff if you don't have livestock yourself.
I wondered if inoculation was still standard practice. I grew a crop around twenty years ago which yielded quite well but inoculating the seed seemed a bit of a faff.
What is their financial value relative to beans? What are they 25-30% CP? @Simon Chiles do you feed or sell?
Yes I used a cement mixer, then dashed off to get the seed planted ASAP. We grew ours as a seed crop and they were exported to Holland. I have never been so nervous about getting a rejected load.That was years ago, had to mix seed and inoculant in a cement mixer, later replaced by inoculant in a powder that you sprinkled on the seed.Both those methods required you to drill everything you’d inoculated in the same day. Now the inoculant is glued onto the seed in a dressing that preserves the rhizobium for months and is easy.
What is the rough price of seed per acre Simon ??
Lupin is no where near as good as Soya for feed in more ways than one, no comparison.
And from.a growing point of view yr would be better off with beans or even peas
DUP is what Soya masters at.