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A look at a mixed species cover crop field 800’ above sea level planted on the 28th August. It’s mainly oats, vetch, linseed and berseem clover with a sprinkling of tillage radish and stubble turnips. The crop has really developed in the last couple of months after a slow start with delayed drilling and dry soil. The warm and damp months that followed have enabled significant growth in the canopy and the roots. These plants are catching nutrients that would normally have been lost to the soil (winter rainfall). The nitrogen fixing plants (legumes) are making nitrogen fertiliser (from the atmosphere) for themselves that will be recycled into the next crop (spring barley) when we plant it in early spring. The sheep will be grazing this field in January.