What are the economic considerations you factor in with incorporating pulses into your arable rotations?

[Lucy Cottingham]

How does the inclusion of pulses in your rotation impact overall farm profitability?
Are there markets for pulse crops that you find particularly lucrative or challenging?
How do you manage the financial risks associated with growing pulses, particularly in terms of market volatility or crop failures?
Have you found any government incentives or support programs e.g. Pulse Pioneer trials that encourage pulse cultivation, and how have these influenced your farming practices?

 

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How does the inclusion of pulses in your rotation impact overall farm profitability?
Are there markets for pulse crops that you find particularly lucrative or challenging?
How do you manage the financial risks associated with growing pulses, particularly in terms of market volatility or crop failures?
Have you found any government incentives or support programs e.g. Pulse Pioneer trials that encourage pulse cultivation, and how have these influenced your farming practices?

Combine damage is the biggest problem

 

[Farmer Roy]

Pulses can be more profitable in their own right than many other crops.
Mungbeans ( during the summer ) & chickpeas ( during the winter ) can both be worth around $1000 / tonne, compared to around $300 for cereals . . .

Then of course, there are the many unquantified benefits to the following crop & soil health & biology from growing pulses

 

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