10 December 2014

Another alternative crop: Field beans

​Today, we continue with usual sowing tasks in our area and in Spain in general for these months. Once more time, our friend Espejo (from Chinchón) sent us some pictures… this time he had been sowing ​field beans. This crop is unknown for us because we had never sowed it… in fact, we annually sow broad beans (as you can see in this post) to eat them the best recipe is cooking them with ham. In this case, their variety is for feed.

As you will see, he uses a monogram ​seeder machine with 4 rows by Monosem firm; this machine is normally used for so​wing corn. According to his explanations, they have sowed ​field beans (whose fruit is smaller than broad beans) to enable the combine harvester performing a good job and to avoid that the harvester break them. In his area, the farmers gave up sowing them due to the old combine​s broke lots of collected fruits… he hopes not having these problems currently. This plant doesn’t suffer so much with the freeze in the winter mornings, and then this crop is a good option for cold areas.

Regarding the sowing task, the used dose is 130kg/ha sowed with a distance of 72.5cm x 12cm. The Manosem machine works really fine, and it can reach a working speed of about 5km/h. In the following pictures, after the sowing tasks, they use a discs roller to help them with the germination.


Versión en español.



6 comments:

  1. Le veo a vuestro amigo de Chinchón trillando en las eras y acarreando el bálago como antes y con el botijo a la sombra. Si las cosechadoras de antes con un cilindro los partían, las de ahora ya me contaréis.
    Salu2.

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    1. jajajajaja... no creo, la tecnología de ahora no es la de antes. De todas formas, ya nos contará que tal se dan las tareas de cosecha. Seguro que lo contaremos en el blog.

      Gracias por tu comentario.

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  2. abonado herbididas y precios de venta?
    salu2

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    1. Hola.

      Pues según nos comenta nuestro amigo Espejo, se tratan para el pulgón con dimetoato y si tienes problemas de jopo con glifosato.

      Respecto al abono utilizado, le echa 150kg/ha del 8-15-15 unos días antes de sembrar y ya es suficiente.

      La semilla certificada cuesta entorno a 0.7€/kg (de esto tienes más información en el link publicado en el artículo sobre la semilla utilizada por él) y la producción estará entorno a 2000kg/ha... o por lo menos eso espera nuestro gran amigo Espejo.

      Saludos.

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  3. y el precio de venta?

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    1. Entorno a 300€/ta, pero ya sabes que esto es muy variable.

      Muchas gracias por tus comentarios.

      Saludos.

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