Sand beans Betch White variety

Pest county, 2009 Pilisszentlászló

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Description
Total seed dose: 30-40 kg/ha, 15-20 kg is generally recommended in mixtures.

Betch White beans, also known as cowpeas, are a commercially closed seed lot without pods.

It can be used as a grain, fibre fodder crop and as a green manure crop.
Sowing rate depends on production method and use: sown in a wide row spacing or in a bed, it can be sown from 10-20 kg for grain yield.
When grown as a silage crop, it is suitable from 30-40 kg.

Cowpea is a fast growing annual legume crop. In habit it is more closely related to beans.

Betch White has a more upward growth habit and is not a heather, making it preferable for solo harvesting. When grown in a mixture it relies on other plants.

It is valuable for human consumption, as grain and green fodder. It is a high quality green fodder for sheep and cattle and can be used as a hay or haylage, usually mixed with Indian cologne or Sudan grass. It can also be sown in silage maize beds.

A good summer second-crop fodder crop, which also provides nitrogen for the following crop in the rotation. It is also a good summer green manure or cover crop mix, a fast-growing component that blackens with the first frosts in autumn.

It is a thermophilic crop that tolerates poorer soils. It will not grow in waterlogged soil as it is cold sensitive and does not like high humidity.

The freshly harvested grain is white.

Characteristics:
- Cowpea is a continuous grower, grown for hay and haylage, it will resprout at a cutting height of 10-15 cm, like its partners in mixtures, Indian millet and Sudan grass.
- It is also excellent for making hay and dries well.
- Cutting depth: 2-3 cm.

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