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Crop Rotation

  • 11-01-2009 3:08pm
    #1
    Vorak
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    I understand the concept of crop rotation. But would a wheat-clover rotation mean you would plant wheat in spring and harvest it in autumn, then straight away plant the clover in the autumn and then harvest it the following spring? So there is always something growing, ie no fallow period, and there are two harvests every 12 months, 1 wheat and 1 clover??? So no muddy fields...


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  • #2
    nilhg
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    Vorak wrote: »
    I understand the concept of crop rotation. But would a wheat-clover rotation mean you would plant wheat in spring and harvest it in autumn, then straight away plant the clover in the autumn and then harvest it the following spring? So there is always something growing, ie no fallow period, and there are two harvests every 12 months, 1 wheat and 1 clover??? So no muddy fields...

    Clover wont establish and crop in that time frame, your wheat harvest will be around the first week of september, and spring wheat needs to be sown in Feb for best effect and before Patricks day for any consistency.

    Some folks around here have had some success with westerwolds ryegrass sown after winter barley, teking a very early cut of silage and then sowing spring barley.


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