Crops
Lentil barley intercropping
Intercropping – Harvested seeds
Broken seeds after harvest
Seeds after harvest
Field faba bean and triticale intercropping
Faba bean varieties
Faba bean with disease
Infested faba beans
Black bean aphid on faba bean
Faba bean and pea as feed
Faba bean and oat sowing
Faba bean disease: Botrytis fabae
Faba bean crop
How to increase the nutritional value of beans for pig and poultry diets
Blue lupin oat intercropping
Narrow-leaved lupin
Sclerotina stem rot in soybean
Sclerotina is potentially the most damaging disease that occurs in all regions where soybean is grown. The infection results in yield losses and contamination of seed with sclerotia. Crop rotation and sowing of disease-free seed are the main control measures....
Beans bring more biodiversity
Heat treatment and dehulling effects on feed value of faba beans
Why farmers grow lupin
The survey and respondents An online survey with conventional and organic farmers who cultivated lupin was conducted across Germany within the ‘Demonstration Network for Cultivation and Utilisation of Lupin’ between October and December 2019. In total, 67...
Lupins on spoons
Forage legumes for a cool climate
Protein from alternative forages Increasing on-farm plant protein production addresses emerging consumer expectations. Producing more high-protein forage reduces reliance on imported protein sources. This reduces the carbon footprint of the feed and reduces the...
The bean seed beetle in faba bean
The lifecycle An understanding of the lifecycle is the foundation of control strategies and risk assessments. The beetle has one generation per year. Adults hibernate overwinter in leaf litter and under bark before emerging in April/May. Diapausing adults leave...