A combination of cover cropping and reduced cultivations has led to savings of ￡77.35/ha for one award-winning soil fanner.Jim Denys, from Parkhill, manages 800ha of cropping across 30 farms, growing non-GM soya, winter wheat (soft red and white), maize and some haricot beans.His rotation is maize, followed by soya and wheat, roughly equating to one-third of each. The beans tend to be grown in fields that have been drained, so they require more intensive cultivations to level the soil.
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