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  • From: "Bennett" <bennett AT frognet.net>
  • To: "market farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: cover crop mixes for poultry/vegetable multi-cropping
  • Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 23:37:22 -0500


The drough just about wiped out our pastures, which were in
very poor and over-grazed condition anyway. Can any of the
below mentioned be seeded now, or sometime this spring?
>> We've now settled on mixes of grains & annual rye, for several reasons.
>>
>> diminishing their ability to germinate. This type of mix may also be
>> established much later in the season, an important aspect in a climate
>>
>favored "guild" at the moment is a combination of cereal grains (rye &
>oats) for height & carbon, annual ryegrass (mainly for filling in the
>space between the cereal grains), and field peas for N fixing & biomass.






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