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Oats Phacelia grazing cover crop
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<blockquote data-quote="foxbox" data-source="post: 6485021" data-attributes="member: 220"><p>When used in an arable cover crop or alongside OSR I'm told the berseem clover is there to scavenge nitrogen that would otherwise leach rather than fix any itself. The idea with OSR is that after chucking your autumn N on the burseem clover roots to depth quickly and catches the N missed by the OSR, turning it into top growth. When the clover dies in the frost it effectively deposits the N back on the surface, by the time it's broken down and mobile again hopefully the OSR is growing and uses the N on it's second attempt. </p><p></p><p>It's a great theory, not sure if it's ever been quantified in terms of N leaching reductions but the point is (as you say) it's not fixing atmospheric N to the same extent red or white clover would be at other times of the year.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="foxbox, post: 6485021, member: 220"] When used in an arable cover crop or alongside OSR I'm told the berseem clover is there to scavenge nitrogen that would otherwise leach rather than fix any itself. The idea with OSR is that after chucking your autumn N on the burseem clover roots to depth quickly and catches the N missed by the OSR, turning it into top growth. When the clover dies in the frost it effectively deposits the N back on the surface, by the time it's broken down and mobile again hopefully the OSR is growing and uses the N on it's second attempt. It's a great theory, not sure if it's ever been quantified in terms of N leaching reductions but the point is (as you say) it's not fixing atmospheric N to the same extent red or white clover would be at other times of the year. [/QUOTE]
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