Cultivation of Legume and Gramineous Grass Mixtures for Use on Hayfields and Pastures of Southern Sakhalin

Abstract Nowadays due of the world population growth, demand for agricultural products is also growing. To obtain good meat and dairy products, high-quality feed farm animals necessary. Legume-gramineous perennial grass mixtures are used to improve fodder lands. Our experience included a test 9 variants legume-gramineous mixtures, where 6 types grasses were used: red clover, alfalfa (legumes), meadow timothy grass, orchard-grass, smooth brome-grass, fescue (cereals). The experiments carried out in four repetitions on lands hay pasture use with fertilizers; there phenological observations, biometric measurements, determination botanical composition. In herbage from fields brome-grass dominated, pastures orchard-grass dominated. proportion non-sown species reaches 26.3-32.7 % three-component grass. Meadow terms growth rate, reactions nitrogen application inferior bromegrass, which led their oppression displacement herbage. best density plant standing per 1 m 2 was noted smallest - alfalfa.