Nutritive value of field pea - oat and common vetch - oat bicrops

Peas and vetches are the most important plant species for production of forages, where they can be used as hay, haylage or silage. Due to their specific characteristics - tendency lodging high buffering capacity, usually grown in a mixture with small grains support crops prevent reduce lodging, at same time obtain biomass suitable ensiling process. In pure crops, peas often green feeds hay stage first pod formation, while best quality vetch dry matter has been achieved by using it full flowering beginning when up 25% crude protein is obtained culture. The nutritive value peas, common oats, mixtures presented function structure use. Special attention paid content cell wall components digestibility these feeds. Because all mentioned above, particularly choose right harvesting balance yield nutritional bicrops.