Description
Components:
- Sweet forage sorghum
- Babala
- Dolichos beans
- Cowpeas
- Sunhemp
- Niger
Benefits of cover crops:
- Increase root mass in different soil layers.
- Lead to better aeration in the soil, as well as improved microbial distribution.
- Assist in the rapid build-up of humus or organic carbon levels.
- Offer better protection against pests and plagues and allow for healthier soil.
- Promote favourable conditions for beneficial insects such as earthworms.
- Increase the soil’s water filtration and retention ability.
- Specialised mixtures meet the needs of the novice as well as the experienced cover crop farmer.
- Combination of legumes, tubers and other crops offer benefits across the entire spectrum.
- Well formulated mixture for establishing the ideal 24:1 C/N balance.
- Economic benefits included in using legumes in nitrogen binding.
- Biological inoculants form part of the mixture, stimulating rhizobium binding and root growth.
- High quality affordable grazing.
Benefits of mixture:
- Advanced 6-component summer mixture consisting of different annual summer forage crops and legumes.
- Ideal for crop rotation and enhancing overall soil health.
Sowing density:
- With irrigation: 25-30kg/ha
- Dryland: 10-15kg/ha
Planting time:
- October to January
Supplied and packed by Agricol.
Subject to stock check; please call to confirm.
