Working with nature, cover crop seeds, mixes and EnviroPastures. Regenerative Farming New Zealand.
Plant diversity is the key to reducing inputs and increasing profits. Cover crops seeds and mixes are an important part of your rotation. They not only help control erosion; they also provide key nutrients. Cover crops can alleviate soil compaction issues, assist in weed control, and boost moisture retention to transform your pasture into the regenerative farming system.
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Pest Management
Erosion Control
High Soil Fertility
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Beneficial Insects
Green Manure
Bio Tillage
CO2
Water Retention
Pest Management
Erosion Control
High Soil Fertility
Microbiology Builder
Beneficial Insects
Combine the Right species
Paddock condition and history along with seasonal and climatic conditions affect recommended species and seeding rates for each desired outcome
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We will help you to design the right mix from our list of cultivars to increase your profit
Find out more about cover crops species:
Cover Crops: Legumes
Cover Crops: Grains
Cover Crops: Grasses
Cover Crops: Brassicas
Cover Crops: Herbs
Other cover crop seeds for Regenerating Farming
Other cover crop seeds
Captain Crimson Clover
Benefits:
- N fixation
- Fast establishment, competitive with other annual forage
- High biomass/ DM production
- Low bloat risk
Limitations
- Short lived
Red Rascal Red Clover
Benefits:
- N fixation
- Fast establishment, competitive with other annual forage
- Strong root system
Limitations
- Bloat risk
Persian Clover
Benefits:
- N fixation
- Fast establishment, competitive with other annual forage
Limitations
- Short lived
- Bloat risk
Buckwheat
Benefits:
- Easy and fast to establish
- Weed suppression
- Attracts beneficial insects
- Consumes less moisture
Limitations
- Diseases that could bother buckwheat, so you has to be sure that you mix this crop with right cultivars
Tillage DR3 Diakon Radish
Benefits:
- Deep soil penetration, busting compaction
- Soil aeration
- Increase the soil nutrition
- Reduces erosion
- Feeds soil microbes
- Fodder
Limitations
- Require good sunlight
- High moisture consumption
Mustard
Benefits:
- Contains high levels of glucosinolates
- Weed suppression
- Attracts beneficial insects
- Soil fumigation
Limitations
- High moisture consumption
- Must not be used for animal feed
Turnip
Benefits:
- Temperature resistant
- Can maintain the feed demand in the feed shortage period
- Soil penitration
- Summer and Winter options
Limitations
- High moisture consumption
- Less resistant against weed and pest
Wheat
Benefits:
- Economic
- Grow rapidly
- Resistant to cold weather
Limitations
- Depends on temperature conditions
- Could be damaged by some species of pests
Ryecorn
Benefits:
- Could effectively tackle weed and pest with right combination with other cultivars
- Reduce erosion
- High rate of biomass/DM production
Limitations
- Significantly depends on temperature conditions
- Soil penetration is less then for brassicas and for some other species
Oats
Benefits:
- Fast establishment
- Weed suppression
- High biomass production
Limitations
- Single cut/graze
- High moisture consumption and content
Omaka Barley
Benefits:
- Multi Graze/cut
- High feed value
- Prevents erosion
- High biomass production
- Soil structure building
Limitations
- Barley is typically single cut/graze with some exceptions (Omaka)
- Temperature sensitive
Afterburner Annual Ryegrass
Benefits:
- Economical
- Fast establishment
- Weed suppression
- High DM production
Limitations
- Short lived but can substitute with longer rotation grasses
- Less temperature resistant than some other species
Solar Reach Sunflower
Benefits:
- Fast-growing crop with the high yield capacity
- Beneficial insects
- Efficient in extracting soil moisture
- Prolific deep root system
- Drags nutrients from depths unavailable to other species
- High protein
Limitations
- Grazing low utilisation
- Sensitive to temperature conditions
Peas
Benefits:
- High organic matter
- Nitrogen fixation
- Ideal for Autmn and Spriong mixtures
- Soil conditioning
Limitations
- Not suitable for mixing with all cover crops
Linseed / Flax seed
Benefits:
- Highly attractive to beneficial insects
- Helps mobilise phosphorus in soil
- Tackles soil compaction issues
- Suitable for cool season production
- Increase organic matter
Limitations
- Slower to establish
Faba Beans
Benefits:
- High N fixation
- Ideal for providing extra soil organic matter
- Highly attractive to beneficial insects
Limitations
- Hard for mixing with some cover crops because of the size of seeds
Yarrow
Benefits:
- Deep root system
- Highly attractive to beneficial insects
- Drought tolerance
- Very palatable
Limitations
- Hard to kill
Hairy vetch
Benefits:
- Increases N
- Reduces erosion
- Fast establishment
- Weed suppresion
Limitations
- Not recommended for poorly drained soils
Phacelia
Benefits:
- Soil conditioner, builds aggregates
- Attracts beneficial insects
- Absorbs excessive N in soil
- Green manure
Limitations
- Not deep rooting
Herbivore Chicory
Benefits:
- Deep tap root
- Mineral miner
- Attracts beneficial insects
- Drought tolerent
Limitations
- Higher risk of crop disease unless it is combined with the appropriate crops
Hercules Plantain
Benefits:
- Highest anthocyanin content variety for animal health
- Excellent root depth and mass for soil compaction issues
- Good at tackling erosion
- Mineral miner
- Highest warm season production variety by up to 50%
- Easy to establish
Limitations
- Not attractive for the beneficial insects
Fescue
Benefits:
- Helps to reduce soil erossion
- Improves soil quality
- Increases nutrition
Limitations
- Cannot be combined with some cover crops
Cocksfoot
Benefits:
- Requires lower seeding rates
- Improves soil quality
- Deep rooting system
- Persistent perennial
Limitations
- Slower in establishment
Lotus
Benefits:
- Increase N
- Deep rooting system
- Condensed tannins
- Bloat free grazing
Limitations
- Hard to kill in some regions of New Zealand
Sheeps burnet
Benefits:
- Deep rooting system
- Improves soil quality
- Helps to reduce soil errossion
- Animal health
Limitations
- Sensitive to the temperature fluctuations