Publication Date
1989
Description
Ecological problems and surpluses of milk and meat have given rise to less intensive systems of grassland utilisation. One of such system is utilisation of air nitrogen via legume symbiosis with nitrogen fixing bacteria. In Slovenia, where conditions for legume growth are more favourable than in NW Europe, natural meadows fertilized with P and K only give reasonable yields - on average around 7 t DM per ha (Leskosek, 1981). Most legumes suffer after frequent defoliation so such meadows should be defoliated only 2- 3 times during the growing season. Under less frequent cutting regime nutritive value of forage is often too low to meet the requirements of the animals. In the following experiment the influence of long term fertilization treatments (unfertilized, PK and NPK) on the changes of nutritive value of meadow during growth was examined.
Citation
Golob, A; Berloznik, Zdenka; Leskosek, M; and Stibilj, Vekoslava, "Effect of Fertilizers on Cutting on Time on Chemical Composition of Sward from Permanent Meadow" (2025). IGC Proceedings (1989-2023). 7.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/igc/1989/session7/7
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Effect of Fertilizers on Cutting on Time on Chemical Composition of Sward from Permanent Meadow
Ecological problems and surpluses of milk and meat have given rise to less intensive systems of grassland utilisation. One of such system is utilisation of air nitrogen via legume symbiosis with nitrogen fixing bacteria. In Slovenia, where conditions for legume growth are more favourable than in NW Europe, natural meadows fertilized with P and K only give reasonable yields - on average around 7 t DM per ha (Leskosek, 1981). Most legumes suffer after frequent defoliation so such meadows should be defoliated only 2- 3 times during the growing season. Under less frequent cutting regime nutritive value of forage is often too low to meet the requirements of the animals. In the following experiment the influence of long term fertilization treatments (unfertilized, PK and NPK) on the changes of nutritive value of meadow during growth was examined.
