For cover crop
Benefits:
- Undemanding with fine and deep pile roots
- Low demand for moisture to germinate makes ZOLTAN to a safe cover crop
- Crop rotation neutral cover crop with fast and healthy development
- Good partner in cover crop blends
- Safe freezing off - good for cultivation systems with reduced soil processing
- Striking flower - popular partner in flourish-blends
Included in blends: viterra® BUNTBRACHE, viterra® HORRIDO, viterra® RAPS, viterra® UNIVERSAL LEGUMINOSENFREI
Crop rotation suitability:
| Maize |
+ |
| Cereals |
+ |
| Oilseed rape |
+ |
| Sugar beets |
+ |
| Potatoes |
+ |
| Intensive crops |
+ |
| Legumes |
+ |
| + suitable / ++ strongly recommended |
Usage:
- Green manure
- Grain use
- Protection against erosion
- Humus formation
- Ground water protection / Nitrogen conservation
- Mulch sowing
Agronomic features:
| Weed suppression: |
4 |
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| Protection against erosion: |
4 |
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| Ground water protection / Nitrogen conservation: |
5 |
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| Humus formation: |
4 |
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| Cold- and frost resistance: |
2 |
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| Drought tolerance: |
6 |
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bad / early / short / low
good / late / long / high
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Cultivation recommendations:
| Recommended sowing rate |
30 - 35 kg/ha |
| Sowing depth |
2 – 3 cm |
| Sowing period |
Main crop cultivation: from end of March to middle of April; Cover crop cultivation mid-July and late August |
| Fertilization |
40 - 80 kg/ha N |
| Crop protection |
Herbicide in the pre-emergence for weed control; no plant protection necessary in cover crop |
| Sowing method |
Drills seed, high demands on the seedbed; no condensation and clogging, if necessary, leveling |
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