Planning & Implementing Crop Rotations

In October's Agricology Vlog, Richard Smith (Farm Manager at Daylesford Organic Farm) revisits a site on which he has harvested barley and seeded a grass ley. In this vlog, Richard mainly focuses on implementing crop rotations, and covers some of the following topics:

• Using straw to put potash back into the soils
• Establishing a grass ley under a cereal crop
• Establishing a grass ley on heavy soils
• Benefits of red clover
• Using red clover for fertility building and as a forage crop
• The ways in which crop rotations will vary depending on types of soil within farms
• Weed management within grass and clover leys
• Rotating between cereal crops and grass leys
• Incorporating lupins and bean crops