Mustard and horseradish will save Italian corn

Never call them “cover crops”, but rather “second crops”. And with this denomination, insert mustard or horseradish (tillage radish) in the 2024 CAP application, after the first harvest corn. The only fundamental warning is to sow them early, that is, by 10-15 September. In doing so, the first frosts at the end of the year and those of January-February 2024 will destroy mustard and horseradish, which are frost-free crops and which will arrive in spring 2025 completely devitalized. In this way, the secondary crop harvesting restriction introduced by the Ministry of Agriculture as part of BCAA 7 automatically expires, by virtue of a cause of force majeure, i.e. the climate. In essence, who can deny that the harvest of the secondary crop did not take place? The crop was destroyed by frost! By doing so, it will be possible to reseed corn on the same Pac parcel in 2025, and again in the following years. Added to the certainty that winter does its job well, in addition to the field ...