Abstract:
This study was carried out between 2002-2004 in Suleyman
Demirel University Agricultural Faculty Experimental and Application Farm
in order to determine the effect of different Hungarian vetch-barley mixture
rates and harvesting periods. In the experiment, the effects of three
different harvesting periods (Pre-blooming, 50% blooming, fruit ripening)
and five different mixture rates (25% vetch+ 75% barley, 50% vetch +50%
barley, 75% vetch+ 25% barley only vetch and only barley) on plant length,
herbage yield, dry matter yield and crude protein yield were investigated.
At the end of the research it was found out that when the rate of barley
increased in the mixture plants became taller, herbage yield and dry matter
yield increased and crude protein yield decreased. The highest herbage
and dry matter yield were obtained between single barley and the mixture
of 25% vetch + 75% barley, pre-blooming and 50% blooming periods the highest
value of crude protein yield was obtained in the mixture of 75% vetch+
25% barley. Harvesting period didn`t effect the plant length and crude
protein yield.
C. Balabanli and M. Turk, 2006. The Effects of Different Harvesting Periods in Some Forage Crops Mixture on Herbage Yield and Quality. Journal of Biological Sciences, 6: 265-268.
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