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Agronomic characteristics

  • Excellent disease resistance

  • Excellent stem stiffness

  • Lynx Spring Beans is Ireland’s most widely grown bean 2018 - 2024

  • Highest yielding Spring Beans on DAFM RL 2024

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COUNT BEANS IN | COUNT ON LYNX

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Agronomy Characteristics and benefits of growing beans

  • Fixed Price Contracts available before drilling

    • Highly palatable feed ingredient that is in demand for our feed industry.

  • Protein Payments & Greening Rules

    • All beans are eligible for protein payments and meet SFP greening requirements including EFA’s.

  • Profitability

    • When prospective prices for cereals are low, beans are low cost but can be a very profitable crop.

  • Excellent Break Crop Option

    • Beans root deeply, fix nitrogen and can add a 0.5 t/ac to the following cereal crop with the possibility of a seed contract.

  • Wide Harvesting Window

    • Weather-proof at harvest. Even when ripe, beans will withstand weeks of poor weather without significant losses.

SPRING BEANS DAFM RL LIST 2024

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Beans post emergrence

Teagasc and Adesco Research into feeding faba beans instead of imported protein to pigs.

Reseach supported by Seedtech

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Research papers available below.

Adessco Research
Teagasc Research

Getting the most from Lynx Spring Beans

  • Drill mid-February to mid-March but suitable to drill into early April, especially heavier soils.

  • Apply 40 seeds/m2 (aim to establish 30 plants/m2)

  • Set drill based on thousand grain weight as can vary considerably based on year.

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Watch our Beans videos.

 

1. How to sow spring beans and preping seedbed with Seedtech

4. Pod fill stage of spring beans with Seedtech

2. Emergence stage of spring beans with Seedtech

5. Harvest of faba spring beans with Seedtech

3. Early spring growth stage of spring beans with Seedtech

6. Production of Faba spring beans with Seedtech

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Spring Bean Agronomy Guide download here

compiled by Tim O’Donovan, Technical Director, Seedtech

Bean Research & Policy Development

Seedtech is actively involved in research to develop new markets for faba beans for human consumption, animal feed and environmental benefits.

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