CELBETA (ECO)

FODDER PLANTS / HUNGARIAN VETCHES (WINTER/SUMMER)

Vicia pannonica Crantz.

Early winter vetch variety

Excellent fodder plants grown in mixtures

In their characteristics and cultivation, they are similar to rye vetch

Resistant to frost

Harvest potential - up to 25-30 t/ha of green mass

Stems - light purple, fleshy, quite strong, little hairy, 80-120 cm long

The flowers are white, sometimes pale brownish

Seeds - dark gray with black spots, slightly flattened

The weight of 1000 grains are about 40 g

Can be used as green fodder or for haying, silage

Willing to eat, good feed value

Winter vetches have more protein than summer vetches

Cultivated as intercrops in mixtures with rye and wheat

It is very undemanding to the soil and, due to its high protein content, is the first green fodder in the spring.

Winter vetches can be grown as summer cover crops by sowing them in late July to early August, and the green crop can be harvested right up until frost.

Winter vetches can be one of the most promising intermediate plants, because after harvesting the green mass in the spring, you can have time to sow summer cereals, buckwheat, and plant potatoes

Enriches the soil with nitrogen

In Lithuania, Hungarian vetch can be sown in the spring for fodder in a mixture with oats, because it produces a large (bigger than the sown summer vetch) yield of protein-rich green mass.

Under different growing conditions than those found in these studies, cultivar parameters may differ from those given here.

SOWING RATE

Recommended sowing rate for seed production: 60 kg/ha vetch and 120 kg/ha rye

Sowing rate when growing green fodder or green fertilizer: 50-60 kg/ha vetch and 80 kg/ha rye
Recommended seeding rate when growing in a mixture with oats: 100 kg/ha vetch and 70-100 kg/ha oats

It is sown in rows of 12.5 cm, the seed is placed 3 cm deep