...l by introducing intensive rooting crops and perennial crops, such as temporary grassland and grass-clover, into the rotation, limiting fallow periods and by maximizing green cover and applying sta...
...s aim to quickly change that. Specifically, they focus on 7 forage crops: the red, white and annual clovers, alfalfa, bird's foot trefoil (roller clover), vetch and cockscomb (esparcette), and 7 se...
...haken, raked last and ensiled first. Reed fescue is well suited for a mixed crop with red and white clover (30 kg/ha + 7 kg/ha red clover + 3 kg/ha white clover) for mowing purposes or only white c...
Dairy farmers can reduce their nitrogen emissions by switching to grass-clover in combination with reduced nitrogen fertilization and mowing practices that improve grass silage quality. Reducing prote...
...also makes a big difference.Spreading less fertilizer on grassland and switching to grass-clover can again reduce several percent CO2 equivalents. Keeping fewer young cattle by increasing t...
ILVO not only breeds grasses, clovers, quinoa, also several green cover crops. One of these is fodder radish. From summer 2025 no less than 5 new varieties will be available on the market. And they ar...
...br> In past editions, ILVO emphasized its breeding work, demonstrating its many developed grass and clover varieties. This year, ILVO has laid out more than 20 different agricultural crops in the d...
...5%. But: this disadvantage disappears when 40 % of the grass share in the forage is replaced by red clover.
... a reserve of nitrogen that the previous crop has built up in the soil. On PHAE, that crop is grass clover, a mix of grasses and clovers. The clovers, in cooperation with root bacteria, bind ni...
...new" crop such as sorghum, showed great potential in greenhouse conditions, while the effect of red clover and yellow mustard proved negligible.Deep rooting crops after mechanical applications:...
...d from the green strip, the nitrogen input to the black strip is higher or lower. A perennial grass clover also scores relatively well here and has the advantage that the sod is firm enough to driv...
... fact, in September we wanted to sow a temporary, herb-rich grassland (with 3 types of grasses, red clover, white clover, chicory and narrow plantain) to restore the soils after intensive grain cul...
...s also released - from substances called cyanogenic glycosides - when pests feed on plants such as clover or passion flower. So the spider mite can make good use of the stolen CAS enzyme to neutral...
... the mulch "Our original plan was to mulch with fresh grass clippings, the first cut of a grass-clover field sowed in fall of 2020. Due to soil conditions that were too wet when the cut became ...
...allows seeds with different seed sizes to be used. That's how it can sow small seeds like grass and clover but also larger seeds like corn and bean. The system brings the seed into the seeding tube...
...ll be tested and compared with ryegrass. This both in monoculture and in mixed cultivation with red clover. Maarten Cromheeke (ILVO): "In the first cut this year, they yielded as much as standard g...
...n cultivator for destruction of the green cover crop The Treffler precision cultivator destroys clover and green cover crops 100% a customized depth between 2.5 and 5 cm (1 - 2 inches). Cu...
...chain. Agroecological principles that are already well established include the cultivation of grass-clover mixes, the reuse of stable manure, knowledge sharing among farmers, even natural grazing a...
The green cover crop sown in July 2020 is a Biomax mixture consisting of flax, phacelia, alexandrine clover, field bean, field pea, sunflower and fodder vetch.
...typical crops The following crops and mixed crops are already present in plots: microclover (very small ground-cover clover) in which a main crop such as grain is sown.A combination of gras...
...y, organic farmer Simon Colembie also grows wheat, spelt, potatoes, green beans, grain maize, grass clover and fodder beet. "I was immediately convinced about growing Belgian soy because it gives m...
Grass-clover mixes (fresh or ensiled) can be applied as a cut green manure in field and greenhouse crops. ILVO, Inagro, PCG and UGent evaluated whether the depth at which the cut green manure is intro...