Hairy Vetch: Free Nitrogen from the Air
Learn how hairy vetch pulls nitrogen from the atmosphere and fixes it in your soil—potentially saving thousands in fertilizer costs. Keith from Green Cover explains why northern-grown varieties are more winter-hardy than imported seed, and how to use hairy vetch in a fall-planted mix.
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0:00 Why pay thousands of dollars for nitrogen fertilizer for your crops when
0:04 You can pull it right out of the atmosphere for free. God has given us.
0:08 30,000 tons of nitrogen above every acre of crop ground in the world and you can
0:13 Use seeds like hairy vetch to pull that out of the atmosphere. Hairy vetch will form
0:17 Associations with rhizobia bacteria which can make that nitrogen available to your.
0:23 Plants, hey everybody, I'm Keith FNS with Green Cover, and I'm here to tell you.
0:26 That Harry vetch is one of the most important winter legumes there is it's
0:37 Crimson clover it's a great companion in a mix and it's almost guaranteed to over.
0:41 Winter just about everywhere. One of the reasons that our hairy vetch seed is so.
0:46 Winter hearty is we're growing it in Northern climates we're growing this in.
0:49 South Dakota and Montana and even Canada, and that makes it more winter hearty than imported varieties that come from South America and from Europe. Our vetch is also grown by some of the top growers in the country and it's grown with regenerative practices like companion cropping and no-till practices.
1:08 So if you're looking to cut down on your fertility cost this year, consider fall planting hairy vetch as part of a mix and let the nitrogen flow next spring for your cash crops.