Ryegrass and white clover
Regulation of legumes by mixing different varieties for silage and grazing
Project responsible: Nilla Nilsdotter-Linde, Department of Crop Production Ecology, SLU.
Project colleague: Jan
Ryegrass and white clover
Regulation of legumes by mixing different varieties for silage and grazing
Project responsible: Nilla Nilsdotter-Linde, Department of Crop Production Ecology, SLU.
Project colleague: Jan Jansson, Södra Älvsborg Rural Economy and Agricultural Society.
In organic ley production, regrowth yields often present nutritional problems, with excessively high crude protein contents and low fibre values. Complete control of legumes is difficult to achieve in practice. In spite of this, there are currently species and cultivar materials that could improve the control potential considerably. New species, new cultivars and mixtures of different cultivars with differing growth patterns, development rhythms and persistence can exploit different niches in a crop stand and thereby complement each other.
Cultivar mixtures are being used by some practitioners, a few seed companies are offering e.g. ryegrass mixtures with up to five different cultivars, but com