Highest Yielding Bean on DAFM Rec List 2024
Agronomic characteristics
Excellent disease resistance
Excellent stem stiffness
Lynx Spring Beans is Ireland’s most widely grown bean 2018 - 2024
Highest yielding Spring Beans on DAFM RL 2024
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Agronomy Characteristics and benefits of growing beans
Fixed Price Contracts available before drilling
Highly palatable feed ingredient that is in demand for our feed industry.
Protein Payments & Greening Rules
All beans are eligible for protein payments and meet SFP greening requirements including EFA’s.
Profitability
When prospective prices for cereals are low, beans are low cost but can be a very profitable crop.
Excellent Break Crop Option
Beans root deeply, fix nitrogen and can add a 0.5 t/ac to the following cereal crop with the possibility of a seed contract.
Wide Harvesting Window
Weather-proof at harvest. Even when ripe, beans will withstand weeks of poor weather without significant losses.
SPRING BEANS DAFM RL LIST 2024
Beans post emergrence
Teagasc and Adesco Research into feeding faba beans instead of imported protein to pigs.
Reseach supported by Seedtech
Research papers available below.
Getting the most from Lynx Spring Beans
Drill mid-February to mid-March but suitable to drill into early April, especially heavier soils.
Apply 40 seeds/m2 (aim to establish 30 plants/m2)
Set drill based on thousand grain weight as can vary considerably based on year.
Watch our Beans videos.
1. How to sow spring beans and preping seedbed with Seedtech
4. Pod fill stage of spring beans with Seedtech
2. Emergence stage of spring beans with Seedtech
5. Harvest of faba spring beans with Seedtech
3. Early spring growth stage of spring beans with Seedtech
6. Production of Faba spring beans with Seedtech
Spring Bean Agronomy Guide download here
compiled by Tim O’Donovan, Technical Director, Seedtech
Bean Research & Policy Development
Seedtech is actively involved in research to develop new markets for faba beans for human consumption, animal feed and environmental benefits.
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