Forage planting techniques how to plant forage with high yield

Forage is a very strong regenerative grass, rich in vitamins and trace elements, often used to feed animals with herbs, at the same time the quality of grass, yield are affecting the interests of animal husbandry, then how to plant high-quality, high-yield grass? Let's find out together with Xiaobian below!

Forage planting techniques

The sowing method of grass planting is usually broadcast and drill sowing.

1. Sowing: Sprinkle seeds directly on the soil surface by hand, and then rake the soil lightly.

2, drilling: ① peer drilling: several kinds of grass seeds sown in the same row;② intermittent drilling: one or more kinds of grass sown in another row.

How to grow grass with high yield

1. Selection of pastoral areas

First of all, the planting area of pasture should be wider. In the selection of pastoral areas, it is necessary to choose wide and flat areas. The soil should be fertile, deep and well drained, which can support the nutrient needs of dense growth and multi-season growth of pasture. After selecting the location of the pastoral area, the pastoral land should be renovated, which can make the soil more loose and can also make the distribution of nutrients in the soil more balanced.

2. Selection of forage grass

There are many kinds of herbage, and the main conditions for selection are good grass quality, high yield, multi-season harvest, strong vitality, high nutritional value for livestock and improved meat quality of livestock. Most of them are mainly leguminous crops, but there are many crops to choose from, such as ryegrass, Mexican corn grass, emperor grass, sweet elephant grass, alfalfa and many other varieties. However, the vast number of farmers and herders should also choose forages according to the climate and soil conditions of the area where their farms are located.

Maintenance of grass

After farmers and herders have chosen pastures and pastures, they should choose the number of pastures according to the size of pastures. After grass is planted in the soil, it needs to be maintained. Because the growth of pasture needs to be supplied to livestock in many seasons, it is necessary to increase the fertilization of pasture when maintaining pasture at ordinary times to improve the growth speed of pasture. In addition, in summer, the weather is relatively hot, and the water evaporation is vigorous. In addition, prevention and treatment of pests and diseases of pasture should be carried out.

The role of grass

Forage is the basis for developing livestock production, especially herbivorous livestock production. Forage not only contains all kinds of nutrients necessary for livestock, but also contains crude fiber, which is particularly important for maintaining the health of ruminant livestock, which cannot be replaced by grain and other feeds. High-quality forage can fully meet the nutritional needs of general livestock, if not in the production or fattening period, generally do not need to supplement concentrate. Many experiments showed that milk yield of cattle tended to decrease if the quality of forage was too low, no matter how much concentrate was supplemented, but milk yield could be increased from 23.5 kg to 36.2 kg by replacing low quality forage such as wheat straw and rice straw with high quality alfalfa hay before flowering when concentrate accounted for 20% of diet.

For cattle and sheep in fattening period, the effect of increasing hay quality and livestock weight gain is significant under the condition of constant concentrate ratio. Forage is the cheapest source of feed for livestock. Compared with food crops, it is much cheaper to feed livestock with grass. On the same area of land, under the same production conditions, one mu of Stylosanthes can produce 1000~2000kg of hay, and according to its protein content of 15%, it can provide 150~300kg of pure protein, which is equivalent to 2~3 times of other crops.

Through the above content, I believe that everyone has a certain understanding of the planting method of pasture. In fact, planting grass is very easy, because grass vitality is very tenacious, and regeneration function is also very good, but if you want to grow high-quality, high-yield grass, you need to spend more careful thought!