WINETECH Technical Yearbook 2020

Recommended sowing rate kg/ha

Approximate seed cost R/ha

Treatment

Performance

Forage rye + vetch

25 + 6

Excellent Excellent Excellent Very good

670 570 592 650 950 655 805 470

White mustard + Saia oats

3.5 + 25

White mustard

8

Forage barley + forage pea + radish 25 + 20 + 1.5

Oats + stooling rye + radish + vetch

30

Very good/excellent

Bitter lupines + triticale

25 + 60

Excellent

Phacelia

7

Average

Medics + clover (on the bankie )

3 + 2

Excellent

Forage rye and vetch at Vlakkenheuwel, Hermon.

White mustard and Saia oats at Vlakkenheuwel, Hermon.

Mixture of oats, stooling rye, radish, tiller radish and vetch at Vlakkenheuwel, Hermon.

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