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Cover Crop Demonstration No-till symposium Drakensville 4-6 th September 2012

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Cover Crop Demonstration

No-till symposium

Drakensville

4-6th September 2012

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Soil analysis:

P = 4 ppm

K = 245 ppm

Zn = 4 ppm

Mn = 7ppm

pHKCl = 4.33

Acid saturation = 2%

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Fertilizer applied

► 80 kg P per hectare (Single

superphosphate). Broadcast and left on the

surface before planting.

► Planted on 10th May 2012.

► Topdressed with N @ 50 kg/ha on 4th July &

16th August.

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Crops

Oats (Maida)

Stooling rye (SSR1)

Stooling rye (Echo)

Triticale (Rex)

Pink Serradella (Emena)

Grazing vetch (Max)

Saia oats (black oats)

Sweet lupin

Canola

Persian clover (Nitro Plus)

Saia oats plus grazing vetch

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Acknowledgements

The No-Till Club would like to thank:

Agricol

Valtrac

M.P Badenhorst

Drakensville ATKV

KwaZulu-Natal Department of Agriculture &

Environmental Affairs.