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A yield-secure construction plan
You can control a lot yourself in forage cultivation, but not the climate. Increasing weather extremes in temperature, precipitation and wind are putting pressure on roughage security. How reliable is your construction plan?
By making smart variety and crop choices in the crop plan, you ensure stable high feed value yields, low feed costs and therefore a healthy operating yield.
High-yield maize varieties
In maize cultivation you can steer with the choice of variety. Very early and early varieties also ripen well in cold, wet years. This way they realize their maximum nutritional value and the earlier harvest is beneficial for the soil and possible subsequent cultivation.
Also pay attention to the agricultural properties such as firmness and disease resistance. The summer storms in recent years show that firmness is very important for harvest-reliable maize, not only in the coastal areas.
The third aspect of reliable maize is the origin. Maize varieties from foreign breeding programs are little or not adapted to specific Dutch conditions. LG is already developing more than 25 maize varieties in and for the Netherlands, from the breeding company in Rilland (Zld).
The very latest means for extra harvest-secure maize is the organic seed coating STARCOVER TSSV2. Phosphate and trace elements are used better, so that the plant also produces 4 - 5% more yield under stress. TSSV2 is available this year on LG 31.211, LG 31.218, LG Stacey and LG 31.235.
Appropriate grass mixtures
Smart choices can also be used to increase yield certainty in grass cultivation. The use of grass-clover, for example, provides extra protein and dry matter yield with lower fertilization. High-quality grass mixtures such as LG HAVERA contain a lot of tetraploid perennial ryegrass, which scores higher on production, hardiness and rust resistance.
Yield-secure fodder beets
Fodder beets provide the highest kVEM per hectare, even in less prosperous years. This cultivation is therefore making a strong return in our country. Read more about fodder beets here.
Smart N-binders
Leguminous forage crops such as alfalfa, (winter) field beans, peas and clovers themselves fix nitrogen from the air. This extra N space ensures higher yields, also from the following crop. Alfalfa and clover are (provided they are properly started) not very sensitive to drought.
For more information about a harvest-secure construction plan in 2018:
