Cover crops

Beans

Beans have excellent nitrogen fixation abilities and can be sown as a nitrogen-fixing crop in an area declared as an EFA. However, beans are not suited for sowing after a main cereal crop as it is too late in the season for them to establish.

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Product benefits (ACRES)

  • Within ACRES, a mixture of at least two crops from the prescribed list must be sown.
  • Beans cover crops must remain in place until after 1 January.

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