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<blockquote data-quote="Clive" data-source="post: 7189" data-attributes="member: 6"><p>We drilled into live cover this year (not drilled cover crops but 1ft tall volunteer OSR stands) the advantages seem wide spread, the extra growth of the cover so ultimately more OM etc returned to the soil, the drying effect of the cover using the moisture and also the "drilling on the green" effect Fredric talked about where the cover crop help carry the machinery on a mattress that protect the soil beneath, this year that was a BIG help and the reason we managed to get as much drilled as we did. Where we destroyed cover early soils were sticky and we couldn't get on, they are still undrilled to this day </p><p></p><p>Another advantage seems to be the slug issue - they were keen to keep eating the cover rather than seek out our wheat seed, even after emergence they seemed to prefer the cover to the wheat, they only started to graze wheat once the cover was all but gone by which point the wheat was big enough to start to look out for itself</p><p></p><p>in conclusion I won't be in any hurry to terminate a cover again !</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Clive, post: 7189, member: 6"] We drilled into live cover this year (not drilled cover crops but 1ft tall volunteer OSR stands) the advantages seem wide spread, the extra growth of the cover so ultimately more OM etc returned to the soil, the drying effect of the cover using the moisture and also the "drilling on the green" effect Fredric talked about where the cover crop help carry the machinery on a mattress that protect the soil beneath, this year that was a BIG help and the reason we managed to get as much drilled as we did. Where we destroyed cover early soils were sticky and we couldn't get on, they are still undrilled to this day Another advantage seems to be the slug issue - they were keen to keep eating the cover rather than seek out our wheat seed, even after emergence they seemed to prefer the cover to the wheat, they only started to graze wheat once the cover was all but gone by which point the wheat was big enough to start to look out for itself in conclusion I won't be in any hurry to terminate a cover again ! [/QUOTE]
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