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Should we farm without N?
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<blockquote data-quote="martian" data-source="post: 7048200" data-attributes="member: 801"><p>We've got a no fertiliser experiment going with a field of heritage wheat. It's very interesting (for all sorts of reasons). It's following on from John Letts's ongoing trial where he's been growing continuous wheat with no inputs at all for the last six years. He averages a shade over 1t/acre every year, which he'll point out is rather more wheat than most organic farms can produce off each field (3t/a every four or five years). He maintains that you don't want fertility as old wheats will fall over. </p><p>We've got a good under-storey of white clover and trefoil, which is growing upwards in the thinner parts, but it is keeping weeds down quite well. The wheat outgrows most weeds anyway. I think that this has great possibilities as a very low cost (had no inputs at all so far) system.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="martian, post: 7048200, member: 801"] We've got a no fertiliser experiment going with a field of heritage wheat. It's very interesting (for all sorts of reasons). It's following on from John Letts's ongoing trial where he's been growing continuous wheat with no inputs at all for the last six years. He averages a shade over 1t/acre every year, which he'll point out is rather more wheat than most organic farms can produce off each field (3t/a every four or five years). He maintains that you don't want fertility as old wheats will fall over. We've got a good under-storey of white clover and trefoil, which is growing upwards in the thinner parts, but it is keeping weeds down quite well. The wheat outgrows most weeds anyway. I think that this has great possibilities as a very low cost (had no inputs at all so far) system. [/QUOTE]
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