Planning & Implementing Crop Rotations
In October’s Agricology Vlog, Richard Smith (Farm Manager at Daylesford Organic Farm) revisits a site on which he has harvested barley and seeded a grass ley. In this vlog, Richard mainly focuses on implementing crop rotations, and covers some of the following topics:
- Using straw to put potash back into the soils
- Establishing a grass ley under a cereal crop
- Establishing a grass ley on heavy soils
- Benefits of red clover
- Using red clover for fertility building and as a forage crop
- The ways in which crop rotations will vary depending on types of soil within farms
- Weed management within grass and clover leys
- Rotating between cereal crops and grass leys
- Incorporating lupins and bean crops
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20th October 2017Related farming theme:
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- Daylesford Organic Farm
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