Herbaceous forage legume: the most common types

Herbaceous forage legume in Russia presented several options. First it is white, pink or red clover. He has remarkable qualities of fodder, rich in protein and are successfully used as feed for livestock (hence the name – a fodder plant).

The Most common culture – this is red clover, which in our country has been cultivated for over two hundred years. The plant likes moist soil, fertilized with organic and mineral mixtures, grows well in neutral or slightly acidic soils. The pink variety is more demanding to the ground and has a slightly bitter taste, so worse eaten by animals.

There are other valuable herbaceous forage legume. It is alfalfa. Culture is prevalent because of the high digestibility of feeds and a record of fertility in the southern regions. While providing warmth and moisture can get up to 7 cuts (about 250 quintals of hay) per hectare. On plots with no additional watering, you can collect about 90 quintals per hectare for 2-3 seasons in a single season.

This fodder legume, like sainfoin, grows well on black soil forest-steppe and steppe. He can also grow on stony soils, rich in lime, is a honey plant. Sainfoin is cultivated primarily in the North Caucasus, endures drought, giving about 22 feed units per centner of a crop when consumed by animals.

Another herbaceous forage legume known since Ancient Rome and is called “Vic”. It is cultivated in the Caucasus, some Central regions of the Russian Federation and in Belarus. From culture get grain, silage, hay and green fodder. The latter contain 22 feed units quintal mass. Per hectare for respecting agricultural technology can collect up to 20 kg of grain or about 250 kg of green plant mass that makes the culture very attractive to participate in sevooborota at livestock farms.

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Where the undemanding herbaceous forage legume? In terms of resistance to external influences leads grass pea. Its high frost resistance (can withstand temperatures down to minus seven degrees Celsius), undemanding to soils, drought resistance, which expand the area of cultivation to Western Siberia. The vegetation period (approximately 112 days) gives you the opportunity to get in the middle lane Russia, about 230 kg of plants in the green form or about 17 centners of grain per hectare. Culture is gladly eaten by horses and sheep, less willingly uses her cattle.

An Herbaceous plant of the legume family, the lupine was known in Ancient Egypt. It was used to power how animals and man (beans). Today it is used for getting green manure and as forage. Per hectare of crops of yellow lupine can collect up to 400 centners of green mass of plant, or about 15 seeds. The plant contain dangerous alkaloids, because in the mid 30-ies of the twentieth century in the USSR have developed new varieties that meet the requirements of food safety.

In addition, in the Western regions of the Russian Federation and in Belarus it is possible to meet such a culture as seradella, which is perfectly adapted to poor sandy and sandy soils. Spreading of manure per hectare can be up to 298 kg of green mass, which is fed to livestock. Culture it grows quickly after mowing, provides excellent opportunities for grazing animals.