Evaluation of yield and quality of some annual grass and legume forage crops and their mixtures growing as winter crop under Aydin ecological conditions

This experiment was carried out with annual forage legume-grass mixtures to determine winter catch crop possibilities in Aydın ecological conditions in trial fields of Adnan Menderes University between 2014-2015. Two forage legumes (field pea (Pisum sativum subsp. arvense (L.) Asch.), common vetch (Vicia sativa L.)) and two forage grasses (oat (Avena sativa L.), Italian ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum Lam.)) were selected as crops of experiment material. Mixtures were prepared as %100 forage legume, %100 forage grass, %75 forage legume + %25 forage grass, %55 forage legume + %45 froage grass. Experiment was desinged with 4 replications and mixtures were harvested 2 times. Plant height, green forage yield, dry matter ratio, dry matter yield, ADF, ADL, NDF, CP ratio, CP yield, DDM and RFV were examined in this study. Consequences of the results; forage yield and quality hasn't been effected by harvest time. The highest forage yield (4140,4 kg/da) was obtained from %100 oat application. The highest crude protein ratio (%28,08) was observed in %100 common vetch treatment. As a result of this study, %75 Common vetch + %25 Oat veya %75 Field pea + %25 Oat were suitable mixtures as winter crop mixtures in the same ecological conditions.