RAG
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- Location
- Northeast Brazil
Is it practical/economic to use early sown winter beans as a cover crop for later drilled second wheats/ spring wheat?
Scenario- pre harvest Roundup first wheat, Norfolk, range of soil types.
Harvest wheat, bale/clear straw (for own livestock),spread FYM,drill 200kg/ha winter beans asap in late August. Beans at 250 quid/tonne=50 GBP/ha.
Drill with Mzuri Protill, with legs deep enough to remove harvest/ muckspreading compaction, and semi-incorporate the muck.
Leave until mid November/December, Roundup off and drill second wheat between rows of beans with same drill, but front tines very shallow/out. Whack any blackgrass, no expensive Latitude.
OR
Leave till Feb/March, apply autumn graminicide if nescassary.then spray off and drill spring wheat between rows, with drill applied fertiliser if needed.
OR
Could you drill the wheat into the beans in the autumn, and then take them out with a herbicide in the spring?
Will the cost of drilling the beans and the seed be outweighed by the increased fertility/ nitrogen of the cover crop, or have they not had enough time to fix N? Thanks, RAG.
Scenario- pre harvest Roundup first wheat, Norfolk, range of soil types.
Harvest wheat, bale/clear straw (for own livestock),spread FYM,drill 200kg/ha winter beans asap in late August. Beans at 250 quid/tonne=50 GBP/ha.
Drill with Mzuri Protill, with legs deep enough to remove harvest/ muckspreading compaction, and semi-incorporate the muck.
Leave until mid November/December, Roundup off and drill second wheat between rows of beans with same drill, but front tines very shallow/out. Whack any blackgrass, no expensive Latitude.
OR
Leave till Feb/March, apply autumn graminicide if nescassary.then spray off and drill spring wheat between rows, with drill applied fertiliser if needed.
OR
Could you drill the wheat into the beans in the autumn, and then take them out with a herbicide in the spring?
Will the cost of drilling the beans and the seed be outweighed by the increased fertility/ nitrogen of the cover crop, or have they not had enough time to fix N? Thanks, RAG.