SFI IPM3 - Companion Crops
Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) IPM3, Companion Crops, requires a companion crop to be established, either to act as a trap crop for pests, suppress weeds, improve soil condition, manage nutrient efficiency or provide habitat for natural crop pest predators. IPM3 is a rotational action, and can therefore be carried out on the same area of land each year, or can be moved around the farm. The companion crop does not have to be present for the full growing period of the crop, as long as it is managed in a way that can reasonably be expected to achieve the action’s aim and its intended purpose. A companion crop can be grown alongside oilseed rape to protect the crop from pests, improve soil structure or improve nutrient efficiency.
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Popular combination of TABOR berseem clover to fix nitrogen and the protective canopy of LIFAGO buckwheat.
- Suitable for Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI): IPM3
- Protects the oilseed rape plants from flea beetle
- Best sown 7 days before drilling OSR
- Contains: 40% TABOR Berseem Clover, 60% LIFAGO Buckwheat
- Sowing Rate: 10kg/ha
Boston Seeds are proud to supply the EnviroSeeds range for biodiversity and sustainable farming.
The complete companion crop - tried, tested and recommended by us. Provides the ultimate protection from flea beetle with buckwheat's protective canopy and fenugreeks deterring odour, combined with nitrogen-fixing, fast growing berseem clover.
- Suitable for Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI): IPM3
- Deters and protects from flea beetle, fixes nitrogen
- Killed by frost without regrowth
- Best sown 7 days before drilling OSR
- Contains: 50% LIFAGO Buckwheat, 25% TABOR Berseem Clover, 25% Fenugreek
- Sowing Rate: 10kg/ha
Boston Seeds are proud to supply the EnviroSeeds range for biodiversity and sustainable farming.
Maximum action against flea beetle provided by buckwheat's thick and dense canopy and fenugreek's degterring odour.
- Suitable for Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI): IPM3
- Killed by frost without regrowth
- Best sown 7 days before drilling OSR
- Contains: 70% LIFAGO Buckwheat, 30% Fenugreek
- Sowing Rate: 10kg/ha
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Boston Seeds are proud to supply the EnviroSeeds range for biodiversity and sustainable farming.
Fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum) produces a natural odour to deter flea beetle from the oilseed rape crop. Very tender to frost and therefore reliably winter-killed.
- Suitable for Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI): IPM3
- Rapid establishment, high vigour
- Produces natural odour to protect the oilseed rape plants
- Sow individually or combine in a mix of other companion species
- Best sown 7 days before drilling oilseed rape
- Sowing rate: c.10kg/ha as a companion crop
Boston Seeds are proud to supply the EnviroSeeds range for biodiversity and sustainable farming.
LIFAGO buckwheat (Fagopyrum tataricum) is a different species to conventional buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum) - particularly suited to grow as a companion crop with oilseed rape.
- Suitable for Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI): IPM3
- Rapid establishment and high vigour
- Creates a dense canopy to protect the oilseed rape plants
- Smaller seeded and easier to drill with oilseed rape than standard buckwheat
- Scavenges phosphates from the soil for future crops
- Suitable for Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI): IPM3
- Sowing rate: c.10kg/ha as a companion crop
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Boston Seeds are proud to supply the EnviroSeeds range for biodiversity and sustainable farming.
Tabor berseem clover is an annual, nitrogen-fixing legume often used in forage or green manures and as a key variety for companion cropping with oilseed rape.
- Suitable for Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI): IPM3
- The only single-cut berseem clover variety - does not regrow after frost kill
- Compatible in seed mixtures with grass and legumes
- Nitrogen fixing legume with rapid growth and establishment
- Sow from spring to early autumn. Not frost tolerant
- Suitable for Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI): IPM3
- Sowing rate: 15kg/ha.
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