Hairy Vetch Varieties: AU Merit vs Montana Hairy Vetch

0:04 They're hairy vetch section we've got three different types of hairy vetch here. This appears to be a much longer season hairy vetch. This is one.

0:13 Called au Merritt was developed at Auburn University. Again we don't use a lot of this, we're just kind of using it as a comparison in a trial this.

0:25 One that I'm standing in here is the most common one that we use. It's what we just call our Montana hairy batch. We have it drone in Montana, it's just a via.

0:33 NASA variety not stated but you can see it's very much in full blue. Yeah you might, you can catch them here. There's a bumble bee flying around here.

0:43 Maybe the one that landed on your neck. Yeah, you can tell that this is in full bloom and it has a real attraction pulling all your veg is.

1:02 A very high pollinator value. Hairy vetch is the most reliable overwintering legume that you can plant in the fall. It's not cheap because it's

1:13 A very very hard crop to harvest. It's easy to grow, it's difficult to harvest, mainly because it's so indeterminate. You see it blooming like this—this will…

1:31 Nitrogen-fixing crop and probably the go-to crop for the organic guys to produce nitrogen ahead of a corn crop. Yeah it makes it great when this gets.

1:42 Fully grown it makes a great mulch and the mulch is very easy to plant through. Yeah, and this, you know, this my stand here is a little sporadic.

1:52 Again, I might have been running out of seed when I got down to this end here a little bit. It looks like it looks better down there, yeah. So you know.

1:59 Full like if you want to do maximum weed control maximum nitrogen production you probably need to be playing 30 pounds where is it mixed we may only put anywhere from.