For main and cover cropping
Benefits:
- Uncomplicated and reliable in cultivation - unpretentious regarding to soil and climatic conditions
- Provides essential nitrogen by symbiotic nitrogen fixation for plant growth
- FELIX provides very tasty and protein rich green and silage fodder
- In cover crop blends, the partners benefit from the nitrogen enrichment
- Strong root system boosts the soil tilth and improves the air and water balance of the soil
- Very productive bee forage plant - promotes biodiversity
- Safely freezing off, for untroubled sowing of the following crop
Included in blends: viterra® BEISAAT FEIN, viterra® BIENE, viterra® BIENE PLUS, viterra® BODENGARE, viterra® HORRIDO, viterra® MAIS STRUKTUR, viterra® RAPS, V-Max® SOMMERFUTTER, viterra® UNIVERSAL, viterra® UNIVERSAL N-PLUS
Variety characteristics:
(Officially confirmed or respectively in line with Bundessortenamt)
| Dry matter yield: |
5 |
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| Protein content: |
5 |
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| Initial mass formation: |
5 |
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| Growth height/initial development: |
5 |
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| Height of stem/full development: |
5 |
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| Start flowering: |
7 |
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bad / early / short / low
good / late / long / high
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Crop rotation suitability:
| Maize |
++ |
| Cereals |
++ |
| Oilseed rape |
+ |
| Sugar beets |
+ |
| Potatoes |
|
| Intensive crops |
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| Legumes |
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| + suitable / ++ strongly recommended |
Usage:
- Green manure
- Biogas- and fodder production
- Nitrogen fixation
- Humus formation
- Protection against erosion
Agronomic features:
| Weed suppression: |
4 |
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| Protection against erosion: |
5 |
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| Ground water protection / Nitrogen conservation: |
1 |
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| Humus formation: |
6 |
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| Cold- and frost resistance: |
2 |
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| Drought tolerance: |
4 |
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bad / early / short / low
good / late / long / high
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Cultivation recommendations:
| Recommended sowing rate |
15 - 20 kg/ha in pure seed |
| Sowing depth |
1 - 2 cm |
| Sowing period |
Cover crop: July to early August; Main crop: from beginning of April |
| Fertilization |
Basic fertilization with phosphate and potash |
| Crop protection |
Usually there is no plant protection required |
| Sowing method |
Drill seeds in a dry, finely crumbled seedbed |
30.07.2019 11:01:44 // 6.00 - Breeder: P. H. Petersen Saatzucht Lundsgaard GmbH
