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Location
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Open sunny sites away from overhead lines and trees if possible. Minimum field size 4 ha.
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Rotation
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Best after cereals or fallow
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Soil type
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Almost any but well drained loam best. Optimum pH 6-7.5
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Preparation
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Well cultivated, fine seed-bed, no compaction
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Fertiliser
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50kg/ha N @ index 0, maintenance applications of P & K incorporated into seed-bed
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Herbicides
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Glyphosate in winter, Treflan pre-drilling or Stomp pre-emergence, if required
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Sowing date
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Mid-April to early May, depending on cultivar
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Sowing rate
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Between 90 000 - 150 000 plants /ha
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Row width
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25 - 50 cm
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Drilling
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Drill into a moist seed bed using a drill that can produce an evenly distributed plant population
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Weed control
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Mechanical hoeing post-emergence if row width allows
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Disease control
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None
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Pest Control
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Slug pellets at drilling
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Harvest
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Any suitably modified combine
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