Components:

  • Sweet forage sorghum
  • Babala
  • Dolichos beans
  • Cowpeas
  • Sunhemp
  • Niger
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Benefits of cover crops:

  • Increase root mass in different soil layers.
  • Lead to better aeration in the soil, as well as improved microbial distribution.
  • Assist in the rapid build-up of humus or organic carbon levels.
  • Offer better protection against pests and plagues and allow for healthier soil.
  • Promote favourable conditions for beneficial insects such as earthworms.
  • Increase the soil’s water filtration and retention ability.
  • Specialised mixtures meet the needs of the novice as well as the experienced cover crop farmer.
  • Combination of legumes, tubers and other crops offer benefits across the entire spectrum.
  • Well formulated mixture for establishing the ideal 24:1 C/N balance.
  • Economic benefits included in using legumes in nitrogen binding.
  • Biological inoculants form part of the mixture, stimulating rhizobium binding and root growth.
  • High quality affordable grazing.

Benefits of mixture:

  • Advanced 6-component summer mixture consisting of different annual summer forage crops and legumes.
  • Ideal for crop rotation and enhancing overall soil health.

Sowing density:

  • With irrigation: 25-30kg/ha
  • Dryland: 10-15kg/ha

Planting time:

  • October to January