Shooting Times & Country

Get the best out of your cover crops

arch is still at least a month too early to be moving soil and working down game cover plots if you are putting in maize or planting small seeds such as millet and sorghum. Move the soil too early and you risk it drying out and losing its moisture between now and when it is warm enough to drill, and there is the added risk of it becoming unworkable if it is heavy ground and the clods dry into brick-sized lumps. For now, ground that is being drilled in May and early June is best left as it is.

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