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  • From: wildernessflowers AT comcast.net
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Pea shoots:field peas
  • Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 05:04:25 +0000

allan ive heard them called austrian or winter peas
Field Peas ususally used as n fixing cover crops

see attr
http://www.attra.org/attra-pub/Roadshow/peavetchrs.html


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Field peas are a cool-season annual legume with weak stems and a viny habit.
A useful crop, they are grown for seed, forage, and as a nitrogen producing
green manure. Field peas work well as a summer green manure. If planted with
oats, it also smothers weeds. Grown alone or with oats, they make good
livestock feed but the hay may be hard to cure. When harvested for grain,
they are commonly swathed and picked up with the combine.

As much as 70% of the pea grain is exported. Average selling prices in 1991
were $15.97 per cwt. for green peas and $16.37 per cwt. for yellow peas or
about $4.65/bushel. At the $4.65 price with a 25 bushel yield, net profit per
acre runs in the $12 range. The Palouse region of Washington supports much of
the US dry pea production, though expansion is ocurring into other regions.

Field peas do best on loamy, well-drained soils with a pH from 5.5 to 7 and
moderate fertility. They can tolerate temperatures down to about 10°F and do
not overwinter in the northern states. In the north-central region, field
peas are planted as a spring annual and reach maturity 100 days after
emergence. Moisture requirements for field peas are similar to small grains
and are often planted with them when used as a green manure. Many different
varieties of field peas exist with different traits. Varieties are best
selected according to local conditions.

Field peas fit especially well into rotations preceding fall-planted small
grains or short-season crops. Estimates vary somewhat, but the potential
nitrogen fixation of field peas is generally in the range of 45-70 lbs per
acre. Peas do not threaten to become a significant weed problem if allowed to
go to seed.

Hairy Vetch


> >field peas apparently are also an excellent crop for shoots ..pays
> >for the cover crops at least
>
> whatssa name of these field peas, Martin? -Allan
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  • Re: [Market-farming] Pea shoots:field peas, wildernessflowers, 06/15/2004

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