Germany: Beans are an important feed supplement, use them with confidence

Mixed cultivation of corn and beans is advantageous in silage production. Topagrar.com provides information on a series of experiments carried out by researchers at the German Thünen Institute in the field of co-cultivation of maize and beans for six years and supported by the National Program for Organic Farming. It has been found that this mixture of plants (at the same time, but with alternating row spacing or even placing both plants in the same row) can be an interesting solution for cow farms, as the amount of crude protein per unit area is higher than the amount of maize sown alone and especially under organic farming conditions - can provide higher nutritional value. When sowing together, it should also be taken into account that the proportion of beans can be advantageous up to a maximum of 20 percent, and weed control can only be applied before germination (with a preemergent solution). Researchers have also shown that the presence of beans in silage ...