Field · Legumes
🫘 Faba bean
A long-season protein crop. On the same parcel at most every fourth year.
StartFirst step: mark Faba bean on a parcel.
Sowing
VYR: sow as early as possible in spring. Faba bean tolerates night frost and germinates in cool soil. Seedbed moisture matters most.
Soil and parcel
VYR: suited to zones I–II and the most favourable parts of zone III. Earlier varieties push growing further north.
Fertilising
VYR: do not over-fertilise. Nitrogen at most 15–30 kg/ha.
Yield and harvest
Large-seeded. VYR: dry first below 50 °C for a few hours, rest it for a day so moisture evens out, and thresh gently.
🔄 In the rotation
- Role
- Diversifies the rotation and is a good preceding crop for cereals, but a poor one for itself and for pea because of disease.
- Good preceding crop
- Not on the same parcel in consecutive years. Control perennial weeds the year before (VYR).
- Good following crop
- A cereal uses the preceding-crop value. Trans Farm: do not sow caraway after faba bean, a Sclerotinia host.
- Gap on the same parcel
- At most every fourth year. Depending on disease pressure, an interval of 3–5 years (VYR).
Other crops
Sources
- VYR: Härkäpavun viljelijän huoneentaulu (2024)
- Trans Farm: Kuminan viljelyopas – kylvöä ennakoivat toimenpiteet
Links open public guides. Always check your own contract and parcel advice.
General rotation advice – not a substitute for advice, a contract or the law. Figures come from the sources, not from invention.