Cover crops
Buckwheat
Establishes quickly and helps suppress weeds. Buckwheat is a rapidly growing cover crop that will help reduce nitrogen losses.
Product benefits (ACRES)
- Buckwheat is good to scavenge phosphate in the soil, which it can make available for subsequent crops after incorporation.
- For ACRES, a mixture of at least two crops from the prescribed list must be sown.
- Austrian winter pea cover crops must remain in situ until after 1 January.
Usage instructions
| Rate | 50kg/ha |
| Time | Sow from mid-July up until 15 September in ACRES |
| Frost tolerance | Poor |
| Biomass | Good |
| Pests and diseases | Generally not a problem |