Buckwheat
Establishes quickly and helps suppress weeds. Buckwheat is a rapidly growing cover crop that will help reduce nitrogen losses.
Buckwheat is good to scavenge phosphate in the soil, which it can make available for subsequent crops after incorporation.
- Sowing rate: 30-40 kg/ha
- Frost tolerance: Poor
- Biomass: Good
- Pests & diseases: Generally not a problem
ACRES Scheme
- The following table presents the full list of prescribed catch crops permitted.
- A mixture of at least two crops from the prescribed ACRES list must be sown.
- Buckwheat cover crops must remain in place until after 1 January.
| Brassica | Legume | Cereal | Other |
| Forage rape
4-5 kg/ha |
Crimson clover
10-15 kg/ha |
Rye
65-75 kg/ha |
Phacelia
4-5 kg/ha |
| Leafy turnip
4-6 kg/ha |
Berseem clover
10-15 kg/ha |
Oats
60-75 kg/ha |
Buckwheat
30-40 kg/ha |
| Tillage radish
4-6 kg/ha |
Vetch
15 kg/ha |
Black oats
30-40 kg/ha |
Sunflowers
10-15 kg/ha |
| Mustard
8-10 kg/ha |
Peas
40-50 kg/ha |
Linseed
15 kg/ha |
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| Beans
70-90 kg/ha |
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| Red clover
8-10 kg/ha |
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