Mustard and horseradish will save Italian corn

Published 2023년 10월 25일

Tridge summary

The text suggests calling cover crops "second crops" and recommends including mustard or horseradish in the 2024 CAP application. It advises sowing these crops early, around September 10-15, to ensure they are destroyed by frost and meet the harvesting restriction requirements. The text also highlights research that shows sowing mustard in September leads to natural termination by frost, while later sowing results in continued development even in winter months. The agronomist recommends sowing radish tillage by late September for frost devitalization. Overall, the text encourages farmers to find creative solutions to regulations and emphasizes the importance of timing for successful second crop termination.

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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 ...

Source: Ilnuovoagricoltore