If there were three things from our list that you could change or understand better about pulse crops that would transform how they perform for you, what would they be?
Crop production
- How they fit best into the rotation
- Their yield performance and consistency
- Their impact on soil health, nutrient use efficiency and nitrate losses
- Their Impact on yield and inputs of following crops
- How they perform in novel ways, such as bi-cropping and whole cropping
Processing, feed utilisation, broader issues
- The options to substitute soya-based feed products with homegrown pulses
- The impact on nutritive value of homegrown pulses through eg heat treatment or dehulling
- The effect on livestock productivity of increasing inclusion of homegrown pulses in diets
- The costs and carbon footprint of on-farm processing
- The forage value of whole crop pulses and legumes