MEADOW CLOVER

Clover is a valuable fodder crop that allows you to balance carbohydrate fodder with protein content.

1 fodder unit has 1.5 times more digestible protein than required by zootechnical standards. Contains almost all amino acids; including the most important - lysine, methionine, tryptophan. In the budding phase, meadow clover contains 20.5% protein, at the beginning of flowering - 18%, and in the phase of full flowering - 17.4%. 1 c of green mass contains 21 fodder units, 1 c of hay contains 53 k.o.

Clover enriches the soil with organic matter, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium. By improving the agrophysical, agrochemical and biological properties of the soil, clover is the best predecessor for all non-legume crops.

Growing clover on slopes protects the soil from erosion. The use of nitrogen from the air and the ability to reduce the application of mineral fertilizers allows solving environmental problems.

The best predecessors are winter and spring cereals, row crops.

Clover is sown in early spring under the cover of mainly early spring crops. With spring seedless sowing, it blooms and forms seeds in the year of sowing. In the conditions of Ukraine, summer crops of clover grow worse, inferior to the spring sowing period. You can return to the same field with clover sowing no earlier than after 4-6 years.

Before sowing, we recommend treating the seeds with rhizorthorphin and microfertilizers (boron, molybdenum) and poisoning with fundazol. The field must be rolled after sowing, unless it is raining.

The seeding rate is 8-10 million/ha, which is 15-20 kg/ha of seeds.

On well-prepared fields for sowing, the optimal sowing rate is 14-16 kg/ha.

The yield of green mass for two slopes is 300-500 t/ha

The yield of hay is 50-100 c/ha

Sowing rate — 0.15-0.20 kg per hectare, 15-20 kg/ha