The environmental impact of maize growing in the UK is a topic that continues to cause debate amongst growers, environmentalists and the general public.
However, taking a more holistic approach to maize growing can drastically reduce the impact of the crop. Cover cropping maize ground reduces soil erosion, protects the soil profile and reduces nutrient leaching and one of the most
reliable ways to establish a cover crop is by undersowing the growing maize crop.
There are now a number of options for maize growers within the Sustainable Farming Incentive including SAM2 multi-species winter cover crop, CSAM2 multi-species winter cover crop for growers entered into the expanded 2024 offer and SOH4 winter cover crops for maize, also within the expanded offer. All of these options can be undersown with the growing crop.
Agrovista’s range of maize undersowing and post-harvest mixtures offer flexibility around sowing, are fully compliant for the relevant SFI actions when grown in a way that meets the aims of the action and come backed by many
years of research and experience.