Familiarise yourself with our highly productive mixes
At a time when there are increasingly fewer species in the cultivated landscape, wildflower meadows are an important element for providing game with an attractive food supply all year round. Our wildflower meadow and flower strip mixes are made up of highly productive type compositions for different sowing times and usages.
Wildflower meadow
Wildflower meadows can be annual or perennial. If possible, a wildflower meadow should be cultivated alternately with conventional agricultural crops and the boundaries should be broadly distributed. It is particularly important to create permanent refuge areas that will then last for many years as breeding areas. Only there can wild animals find sufficient peace and protection to breed and rear their young.
Sown by the beginning of August, the wildflower meadows also make outstanding winter catch crops.
AGRAVIS Raiffeisen AG, in collaboration with the Landesjägerschaft Niedersachsen, has developed various seed mixes and tried them out in practice.
recommended by the Landesjägerschaft Niedersachsen e. V.
45% cultivated oats
30% buckwheat escul.
10% sunflowers
4% hollyhock
3% borage
3% Egyptian clover
3% marigolds
2% phacelia
Seed density: 10–15 kg/ha
Sowing time: mid-May to August
The composition of the mix meets both the requirements for support within the framework of the agri-environmental schemes BS 1 (BS 11/BS 12) of Lower Saxony and Bremen and the requirements for an ecological focus area within the framework of agricultural support.
For all locations, can be used for at least 2 years, corresponds to the field conservation headland mix (ASR)
45% perennial rye
25% buckwheat
4.29% mustard
4.29% winter rapeseed 00
4.29% oilseed radish
2.86% turnip rape
2.86% Westphalian fodder kale
2.85% phacelia
2.85% red clover
2.85% white clover
1.43% cock's foot
1.43% Timothy grass
Seed density: 35 kg/ha
Sowing time: end of April to June
Flower strips
With their many species of vegetation, flower strips provide valuable living space for bees, insects and wild animals, and increase the attractiveness of agriculture. For this reason, the cultivation of flower strips and flowered areas is supported at state level within the framework of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). In order to participate in these agri-environmental schemes, precise requirements must be met with regard to sowing time, period of use, crop protection and fertilising, as well as the make-up of the respective seed mix.
AGRAVIS supplies various mixes that are eligible for grants in order to create flower strips and conservation headlands in North Rhine-Westphalia and annual flower strips (BS 11/12) in Lower Saxony and Bremen.
The relevant authorities provide information about the exact requirements of the agri-environmental schemes. AGRAVIS cannot accept liability for the granting of subsidy premiums.
Annual mix of particular value to nectar-collecting insects, very attractive to bees, varied flowering times provide food over a long period, also suitable as a catch crop.
30% Egyptian clover
20% sunflowers
15% phacelia
15% Persian clover
15% buckwheat escul.
5% oilseed radish
Seed density: spring 10–15 kg/ha, late summer 20–25 kg/ha
Sowing time: May to mid-August, as BS 11/12 up to 15th April
The composition of the mix meets both the requirements for support within the framework of the agri-environmental schemes BS 1 (BS 11/BS 12) of Lower Saxony and Bremen and the requirements for an ecological focus area within the framework of agricultural support. Additional BS 1 funding possibility by participating in beekeeping.
