Legume Fallow Mix (AB15, NUM2, NUM3) 2 Years

Countryside Stewardship mixture for AB15

For agreements starting before 1st January 2021

This option will provide food for farmland wildlife, such as pollen and nectar for pollinators, and invertebrate chick food for farmland birds.

It will also offer a rotational reduction of blackgrass.

If successful there will be:

• a reduction in flowering blackgrass and an abundant supply of sown pollen and nectar-rich flowers between early and late summer in year 3 and year 5 of the agreement
• the sown mixture should be retained until 15th August in the second summer after sowing and then re-established
• pollinating and beneficial insects such as bumblebees, solitary bees, butterflies and hoverflies, using these flowers
• some adult farmland birds and chicks seen foraging in and around the sown fallow between April and July

Seed Rate 30 to 40kg/ha