Nicusor Sima

The Test of some Annual and Perennial Fodder Cultures for Fresh Matter Production in Ecological Conditions of Cojocna

The rhythmic supply with quantitative and qualitative fresh matter forage during the summer represents for bovine breeders one of the most important problem that they confronted with. In order to give Transylvanian farmers some solutions for this problem, in the frame of Cojocna Didactic Station, in the spring of 2010 year, were settle down experiments with perennial fodder plants, sown in the last decade of March (alfalfa pure culture as control – M1 and eight mixtures of poaceous and fabaceous, from M2 to M9) and with annual fodder plants, sown in the last decade of April (oat and pea as control; triticale and pea; rape; millet; sorghum x sudangrass hybrid). By choosing of a varied assortment of species, as ecological requirements, it was tried to establish some structures of cultures which have to respond both to the actual climatic changes (Lorgeou et al., 2007; Pervanchon, 2007) and to the principles of sustainable agriculture concept.