viterra® Cover crop blend
UNTERSAAT GRAS
... for sustainable maize cropping
Benefits:
- Optimal for carbon farming and regenerative agriculture
- Effectively protects against wind and water erosion in winter
- Early growing Lolium multiflorum combined with late growing perennial ryegrass guarantees a high crop reliability
- Increases soil sustainability and reduces dirt on the roads during harvest
- Grass blend of Lolium multiflorum (tetraploid) and perennial ryegrass (diploid) for use as undersown crop in maize
- After the maize harvest, the grass continues to develop and binds available nitrogen
- viterra® UNTERSAAT stabilizes humus balance even during tight maize crop rotations
Blend details:
| Seeds % : | 50 % perennial ryegrass 50 % Italian ryegrass |
| Free of crucifers : | yes |
| Free of legumes : | yes |
| Winter hardy : | yes |
Crop rotation suitability:
| Maize | ++ |
| Cereals | |
| Oilseed rape | |
| Sugar beets | |
| Potatoes | |
| Intensive crops | |
| Legumes | |
| + suitable / ++ strongly recommended | |
Usage:
- Green manure
- Humus formation
- Ground water protection / Nitrogen conservation
- Protection against erosion
Agronomic features:
| Weed suppression: | 3 |
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| Protection against erosion: | 8 |
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| Ground water protection / Nitrogen conservation: | 7 |
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| Humus formation: | 9 |
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| Cold- and frost resistance: | 9 |
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| Drought tolerance: | 6 |
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| Type of root | Tuft root |
| Rooting depth | 80 cm |
Cultivation recommendations:
| Recommended sowing rate | 10 - 15 kg/ha |
| Sowing depth | 2 - 4 cm |
| Sowing period | 6 - 8 weeks after maize sowing, to 6 - 8 leaf stage of maize |
| Fertilization | Relevanter Leguminosenanteil laut DüV: 0 % |
| Crop protection | Soil-active herbicides only up to the 2 - 3 leaf stage of maize with reduced application rate; in the 6 -8 leaf stage use only foliar herbicides |
| Sowing method | With pneumatic spreader, harrow or together with slurry fertilisation in standing maize crop |
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