Winter Wheat direct drilled into cover crop
Welcome Friends! To a new way of thinking, here you will see in full detail how a crop of Winter Wheat is being grown regeneratively at S Brandrick, Heatley Banks Farm, Abbotts Bromley, Staffordshire.
It is a always a great pleasure to visit Steve’s Farm and see how the crops are performing, we are always together thinking of new innovative ideas and Steve is open minded to bringing in new ideas on the farm.
This Blog will hopefully help those thinking of growing crops differently in order to reduce inputs, for more information on how to transition this way please do get in touch with us at DJL Agriculture.
21st September 2022
The cover crop is in full flower and the birds and bees are loving it!
The decision has been made to drill winter wheat into this crop, Glyphosate shall be used on most on the field with a patch to be unsprayed to see the differences throughout the year, No pre emergence chemical is to be used.
17th August 2022
Here we have the germinated cover crop that includes the following species,
- Buckwheat
- Sunflower
- linseed
- vetch
- Tillage Radish
- Fodder Radish
- Black Oats
- Phacelia
- Crimson Clover
The crop is coming well considering we have had very little rain, This crop is shortly to be treated with a bespoke foliar nutrient spray that has humic & fulvic acid included in the mix.
The crop of wheat that is growing to be grown is a variety called Costello.
