VESUVIO

Vicia faba L.

A mid-late, rust-resistant, dark-grain bean

  • Rustic
  • Dark seed
  • High protein content
  • Suitable for animal feed, greening, intercrop mixtures
  • It can be favourably stored as silage, especially if mixed with a gramineous plant
  • As cover crop it provides plenty of biomass
  • Suitable for nitrogen restoration, soil structure improvement
  • Yield potential – 2.5-3.5 t/ha
  • Vegetation period – medium late – 7 points (out of 9)
  • Plant height – medium (98 cm)
  • Rusty plants
  • Resistance to bean rust – tolerant
  • Lodging – 10 %, but due to the small height of the plants, it does not affect the yield much
  • Flowers – white (with black spots)
  • Seeds – dark (black)
  • 1000 seed weight – 350-370 g
  • Protein content – high (27.5-28.5%)
  • Suitable for animal feed, greening, intercrop mixtures
  • Can be used for silage with oats or barley
  • As cover/catch crop plants can provide abundant biomass, nitrogen is stored in root nodules

The varietal parameters may differ from those indicated here when the testing circumstances differ from quondam


Recommended sowing rate: 50-60 plants/m² or 175-230 kg/ha