COVER CROPS
Soil Buster
4.0 Mustard
3.0 Fodder Radish
3.0 SMART Radish
A SAM2 compliant winter cover crop. Available with oats for CSAM2 scenarios.
Designed to provide good weed suppression as well as enhancing soil structure and reducing nutrient leaching. Mustard brings reliable, fast, aggressive establishment.
Fodder radish, also very vigorous in growth, produces deep roots and provides cover for longer into the winter.
Smart radish, with its large tap root and strong lateral roots exploits soil fissures to alleviate compaction. It also produces massive top growth, providing excellent ground cover.
Nematode Buster
5.0 Anti-Nematode Mustard
4.0 Anti-Nematode Fodder Radish
A mix of anti-nematode mustard and antinematode fodder radish.
Provides active nematode reduction alongside good weed suppression, enhancing soil structure and reducing nutrient leaching. SAM2 compliant. Available with oats for CSAM2 scenarios.
MegaRoot
3.0 Smart Fodder Radish
2.5 Apoll/Torro Fodder Radish
2.5 Structurator/Daikon Tillage Radish
A blend of smart radish, tillage radish and fodder radish, designed for maximum soil structure enhancement, in addition to weed suppression and reduction of leaching. SAM2 compliant. Available with oats for CSAM2 scenarios.
Lileja Buckwheat
Phacelia
Ideal for spring or summer sown cover crop scenarios, this diverse mix of berseem clover, crimson clover, linseed, buckwheat and phacelia provides an excellent nectar source for pollinators. In addition to excellent weed suppression, Brassica Break enhances soil structure, reduces nutrient leaching and fixes nitrogen (>50kg N/ha), building soil fertility. SOH2, SOH3, SAM2 and CSAM2 compliant.
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Brassica Break
Tillage radish root
Brassica Break
Smart radish root
A range that delivers
The Field Options ProCam Performance Seeds cover crops and environmental stewardship range is designed with optimum performance in mind.
Whether you’re needing a winter cover crop, a winter birdfood mix or a herbal ley, our mixtures are formulated using the best combinations of species and varieties to provide maximum benefit for your soils, your business and your bottom line.
While many of the Countryside Stewardship and Sustainable Farming Incentive actions involve taking ground out of production, choosing
an appropriate mixture and utilising it effectively will ensure that you see the maximum long-term benefits in the rotation to optimise your farm’s production and profitability. ProCam have a wealth of experience and expertise in this area and can offer practical advice on mixture selection, establishment and utilisation. This Arable Guide contains a selection of some of the mixtures we have available that are tailored to meet the needs of various requirements or situations.
SFI MIXES
Tussocky Bumblebee
1.00 Heusers Ostsaat Crimson Clover 1.50 SW Ares Red Clover 0.20 Corn Marigold 0.80 Ekola Yellow Trefoil 0.55 Leo Birdsfoot Trefoil 1.30 Matra Sainfoin 1.00 Common Vetch 0.50 Lomiai Alsike Clover
0.10 Lady’s Bedstraw 2.50 Swaj Tall Fescue (Forage Type) 2.00 Pardus Meadow Fescue
Diverse Legume Fallow
1.00 Altaswede Red Clover
0.50 Global Red Clover 1.00 SW Ares Red Clover
0.25 Ekola Yellow Trefoil
0.25 Leo Birdsfoot Trefoil
0.50 Aurora Alsike Clover
2.25 Latigo Winter Vetches
3.50 Boregine Lupins - Blue sweet
0.75 Coated Phacelia
CNUM3, NUM3 and AB15 compliant.
A legume fallow with additional soilenhancing benefits from phacelia and blue lupins which develop aggressive tap roots that grow deep into soil and scavenge nutrients — especially phosphorus.
An excellent nectar source for pollinators with a long flowering window, designed to do two flowering cycles with the yellow trefoil coming to flower in year two. Enhances soil structure and reduces nutrient leaching.
Legume Fallow with grass
1.00 SW Ares Red Clover
1.00 Heusers Ostaat Crimson Clover 1.00 Altaswede Red Clover 0.25 Leo Birsdfoot Trefoil 0.25 Ekola Yellow Trefoil 0.50 Latigo Winter Vetches
1.00 Treposno Cocksfoot 0.50 Akenaton Berseem Clover 3.00 Agaska Int. Perennial Ryegrass
Kendal Late Perennial Ryegrass
Polar King Timothy
Rivendel White Clover 0.50 Coated Phacelia
CNUM3, NUM3 and AB15 compliant.
A multi-year flowering legume fallow with the inclusion of ryegrass to reduce flowering blackgrass populations. Cocksfoot and clovers provide deep rooting once fully established and Rivendel clover forms an understory. Red clovers, crimson clover and phacelia are colourful nectar sources.
0.20 Cornflower
CIPM2, IPM2 and AB8 compliant.
A flower-rich mixture with legumes and tussocky grasses to provide the ideal habitat for pollinators. This mix provides a wide flowering window thanks to its diverse mix of species. The legumes improve fertility and soil microbial activity while the grasses offer an ideal habitat for hibernating bumblebees and a food source for small seed-eating birds. The wildflowers will self-seed, sustaining their presence in the mix.
Lupin root nodules
