Cover Cropping Straights

A range of cover cropping straights that can be sown out as straights or mixed together to combine desirable characteristics. Depending on the crop sown potential benefits include nitrogen fixation, preventing nitrogen leaching and improvements to soil structure. Care has to be take to select an appropriate green manure to suit the given situation with key criteria being time in the ground, sowing time, crop rotation, nitrogen fixer or holder and whether soil improvement is the primary goal.

All Cover Cropping Straights Varieties

Fodder Radish

A very fast establishing cover crop which is well suited to Scottish conditions. The seed pods provide a food source in year one.
Duration
1 year
Grazing Suitability
Cutting Suitability
Sowing Rate (Kg/Acre)
3
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Reed Canary Grass

A tall perennial grass that is winter hardy and ideal for providing long term cover for game birds.
Duration
4-5 years
Grazing Suitability
Cutting Suitability
Sowing Rate (Kg/Acre)
2.5
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Red Millet

Will provide a feed source and cover.
Duration
1 year
Grazing Suitability
Cutting Suitability
Sowing Rate (Kg/Acre)
10
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White Millet

A good source of winter feed for game cover and wild birds although difficult to successfully establish in northern UK.
Duration
1 year
Grazing Suitability
Cutting Suitability
Sowing Rate (Kg/Acre)
10
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Linseed

A fast growing oilseed bearing crop with attractive flowers. A good source of winter feed for birds.
Duration
1 year
Grazing Suitability
Cutting Suitability
Sowing Rate (Kg/Acre)
20
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Borage

Blue star shaped attractive flowers provide a valuable nectar source for bees.
Duration
1 year
Grazing Suitability
Cutting Suitability
Sowing Rate (Kg/Acre)
10
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Sunflower

Provides a good source of oil rich seeds for winter birds.
Duration
1 year
Grazing Suitability
Cutting Suitability
Sowing Rate (Kg/Acre)
12
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Buckwheat

A fast growing and vigorous plant. Very good, rapid ground cover and flowers quickly.
Duration
1 year
Grazing Suitability
Cutting Suitability
Sowing Rate (Kg/Acre)
20
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Phacelia

It is fast growing and offers good ground cover combined with excellent N holding ability. The attractive flowers are often covered with bees and other insects.
Duration
1 year
Grazing Suitability
Cutting Suitability
Sowing Rate (Kg/Acre)
4
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Tillage Radish

Description

A brassica which requires approximately 100 days to grow to its full potential. It is ideal for growing in late summer after a cereal crop. The elongated bulbs at the base of the plant are of prime importance as they penetrate deep into the soil to help open up heavy soils which may be prone to compaction.


SW6 Scheme Information

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Caledonian

Duration
1-2 years
Grazing Suitability
Cutting Suitability
Sowing Rate (Kg/Acre)
2-3
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Brown Mustard

Description

  • Easy and fast establishment

  • Good ground cover and weed suppression

  • Reduces potato cyst nematodes and their subsequent effects on future potato crops

  • Brassica so care must be taken if other brassicas are in the rotation

  • Better winter hardiness than white mustard

  • Will improve organic matters and soil health


AB2 Scheme Information

AB7 Scheme Information

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White Mustard

A fast growing short lived brassica. Ideal for establishing on sites where first sowing has failed. Scheme: SW6
Duration
1 year
Grazing Suitability
Cutting Suitability
Sowing Rate (Kg/Acre)
3
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Vetch

This legume is a valuable component of many green manure mixtures but can also be sown as a monoculture. Scheme: SW6
Duration
1 year
Grazing Suitability
Cutting Suitability
Sowing Rate (Kg/Acre)
up to 35
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Berseem Clover

Fast growing annual that will provide a large biomass and nitrogen fixation.
Duration
1 year
Grazing Suitability
Cutting Suitability
Sowing Rate (Kg/Acre)
up to 6
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Persian Clover

It is an extremely fast growing legume that is sown primarily as a green manure but has also been used for haylage and grazing.
Duration
1 year
Grazing Suitability
Cutting Suitability
Sowing Rate (Kg/Acre)
up to 6
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Crimson Clover

A rapidly establishing annual clover. Ideal for soil improvement and cover.
Duration
1 year
Grazing Suitability
Cutting Suitability
Sowing Rate (Kg/Acre)
up to 6
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Red Clover

A high protein, fast growing legume which is one of the more popular and reliable legumes. It is versatile as a good source of forage and also acts as a soil improver. Scheme: NUM2
Duration
3 years
Grazing Suitability
Cutting Suitability
Sowing Rate (Kg/Acre)
up to 5
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Keeper

Duration
1-2 years
Grazing Suitability
Cutting Suitability
Sowing Rate (Kg/Acre)
2-3
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