Autumn Sowing: From Harvest Straight Into the Next Season

While the combines are still working on some of our late crops, preparations for the new season are already in full swing. This year, we kicked off with alfalfa and flax, setting the pace for the rest of the autumn season.

There’s only a small window between finishing harvest and starting autumn sowing. Our teams move quickly to prepare the soil, making sure it has the right structure and moisture for seeds to settle in.

One of the lessons we’ve learned over the years was not to rush seedbed preparation. A well-prepared field ensures better germination, and reduces weed pressure later on.

This season, our sowing plan looks like this:

• 922 hectares of oats
• 685 hectares of peas
• 329 hectares of wheat
• 298 hectares of flax
• 15 hectares of alfalfa

This year’s sowing feels special because we’re sowing mostly with our own farm-saved seed: oat, flax, alfalfa, chickpea, peas and wheat. A few years ago, sourcing organic seeds in Serbia was a real challenge—expensive, scarce, and often a compromise on quality. That’s why we decided to take matters into our own hands.

If you want the backstory of how and why we started, check out the full article here.

Not only does this help us adapt varieties to our conditions, but every seed and every crop will also be fully traceable thanks to The Origin, our traceability platform. This means that from seed to silo, anyone will be able to follow the full story of our crops.

So while it might look like we’re still wrapping up one season, in reality the next one is already underway.