pea and bean News
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Full of beans with Maniphos
This season’s wet conditions brought increased sales of our manganese phosphite Maniphos as growers sought to boost root development and natural disease resistance in peas and beans. Initial feedback has been very positive. Farming in Whittlesea, Cambridgeshire, James Fountain applied two applications of Maniphos at 3.5 litres per hectare to his field beans and is very impressed with the ...
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Peas, Beans and Lentils
The global demand for high-quality plant-based protein for food production has risen sharply in recent years. Experts forecast that the trend will be long-term, continuing over the coming years and decades. Typical protein sources from starch crops include pea, broad bean, mung bean, chickpea and lentil. Sophisticated technology allows the individual components of the starch plants - protein, ...
By Flottweg SE
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Crow River Hosting Tour of Kadelbach Organic Farms on June 30
Kadelbach Organic Farms, a 300-acre certified organic farm currently growing sweet corn, sweet peas, black beans and alfalfa/grass hay, is the site of a Crow River Chapter field day from 2 to 6 p.m. Sun., June 30, at 20364 210th St, Hutchinson. Visit the fields and learn about each of these crops, and farmer Glen Kadelbach will show the equipment he uses. Glen is very open about what it takes ...
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Valor brings flexibility to summer weed control
New pre-emergent residual registrations for Valor herbicide in fallows and prior to planting summer crops greatly broadens crop rotation flexibility and boosts efforts in combating herbicide resistance. New registrations for Valor herbicide now enable it to be used for highly effective pre - emergent (residual) control of a broad range of problem weeds in fallow and prior to planting summer ...
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Soil nitrogen increased through greater plant biodiversity
Increased plant biodiversity improves grassland soil quality by boosting its nitrogen levels, even in the absence of nitrogen-fixing plants, recent research has found. Previous research has shown that grasslands with higher biodiversity had higher levels of carbon and nitrogen. However, in the case of nitrogen it has been suggested that this was purely a result of increased numbers of ...
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