Buckwheat

We encourage you try Buckwheat this summer to build your soil and enhance the growth of your summer cover or forage crop. Even though it is not high on the forage preference list for wildlife and livestock, it does greatly enhance the growth of the forages it is planted with. It promotes faster and healthier growth of Sunn Hemp, cowpeas, pearl millet, sorghum sudan and other summer crops that it is planted with.   Click the “size” box to choose different weights of bags available for this product! ~~~ Benefits The benefits of buckwheat are many: It’s quick growth gives rapid cover, helps suppress weeds, attracts beneficial insects and it’s an excellent nectar producer for honey bees. Its abundant, fine roots are excellent for soil building. The roots also produce mild acids, which dissolve the the phosphorus and calcium in the soil, making it available for the plants planted alongside it. Buckwheat also produces two to three tons of dry matter per acre, which decomposes quickly and