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Fill that Gap Part 1 – Catch/Cover Cropping

Join Ballance Agri-Nutrients for part 1 of 3 with Brendon Malcolm from Plant and Food Research and Murray Lane from Ballance Agri-Nutrients to hear about catch and cover cropping.

In this Q&A series, hear about how catch and cover cropping can help you tackle:

  • a winter/spring feed shortage
  • capture excess nutrients post forage crop grazing
  • cover and therefore retain soil on the land.

Watch the entire series

Part 2: Fill that Gap – Establishment from the air

Part 3: Fill that Gap – How to Helicrop

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