Cowpea Varieties: Iron and Clay vs. Pink Eye for Your Farm
Dale walks through the two main cowpea varieties Green Cover sells and why you'd pick one over the other. Iron and Clay grows longer and produces more biomass and nitrogen. Pink Eye matures faster, costs less, and works when you're short on time.
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0:13 One of our most popular if not our most.
0:17 Popular summer legume crop is cow peas and we've got several different.
0:23 Varieties of copies. They each have different advantages disadvantages one.
0:28 Here it's probably our top seller and that's iron and clay. The advantage that
0:34 Iron and clay cow peas have very very mature should have that all surety it.
0:50 Can grow well into the fall, clear till frost, and still keep putting on.
0:57 Leaves foliage to it which are pink eyes.
1:05 Pink eye copies are more of a human.
1:14 Earlier and it is not as productive as the iron and clay that the seed is.
1:26 Really cheap and spring I see yielding plant so produce the law per acre so we.
1:33 Can get the seed for pink eye quite a bit cheaper then we can't learn.
1:40 That's obviously chambers an advantage. It won't make as much biomass because it doesn't grow as long, that'll prove just as fast in a short time. We do, so if you're planning later or you've got just a very narrow window of growth, the pink eyes might give you some advantage in that ring because they are Laura Kaas product. If your goal is to produce a lot of nitrogen, a lot of forage at UConn alone in three heartbeat iron close.