Purple Bounty Hairy Vetch: Early Maturity for Spring Termination
See how Purple Bounty hairy vetch performs in a test plot. This variety matures and blooms earlier than most, making it a smart choice if you're roller crimping to plant corn or want to terminate cover crops early in spring.
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0:02 [Music]
0:05 It's number years ago and it is kind of.
0:11 Billed as one of the earliest maturing.
0:13 Earliest blooming batches on the market.
0:15 So for guys that want to get it to.
0:18 Kind of this myth bloom growth stage as
0:20 Soon as possible.
0:24 Choice may not be overall as productive.
0:27 As some of the others but it gets the
0:28 Word gets there quicker, gets there.
0:30 Quicker, yeah. If you're wanting to roller terminate batch by roller crimping to plant a corn crop, of course you want to get corn in the ground earlier. The earlier flowering of the purple bounty is a real bonus, so a lot of the organic guys that want to kill with a roller crimper, this is the right in the back.