Lifetime:
Annual Lenght : 50 - 100 cm Plantation Rate: 15 - 20 Kg / da Characteristics:
It is considered as a quality forage variety which can be grown in most regions of our country. Spring cultivation is done in cold winter areas.
It is used in mix with grains for animal feed.
White Clover (Trifolium repens)
Lifetime:
Perennial Lenght : Semi-horizontal. Plantation Rate: 1-2 Kg. Characteristics It is the most common type of all trefolium species used as feed. It can be planted as forage mix with english ray grass, with brom. It propogate with it stolons in a short time and grow amoung the soil. It enriches the soil with nitrogen.
California Bluebell (Phaselia tanacetifolia)
Lifetime:
Annual Lenght : 50-100 cm. Plantation Rate: 2-3 Kg. Characteristics:
This plant produce a high quality of pollen for honey production. It is cultivated as green manure and medicinal plant as well as is cultivated as a good forage plant.
Timothy (Phleum pratense)
Lifetime:
Perennial Lenght : 50-120 cm. Plantation Rate: 2-2,5 Kg. Characteristics: It is a very producive forage plant, highly resistant to cold well rich with proteins. Its grass is soft and liked by animals. The seeds are small the planting is easy. It can be planted single as well as mixed with white trefolium.
Red Clover (Trifolium
pratense)
Lifetime:
Perennial Lenght : 50-80 cm. Plantation Rate: 1-2 Kg. Characteristics:
Its grass is rich and so likly to animals. The yields is high in hot and warm areas. It is resistant to cold and acidic soils. It can be planted in mixture. It is recomended to a make the plantation in spring mainly in Middle Anatolia areas.
Meadow Fescue (Festuca
pratensis)
Lifetime:
Perennial Lenght : 50-100 cm. Plantation Rate: 3-4 Kg. Characteristics:
The plant can reach high level of yield and fast growing. It is resistant to cold. It grows up fast after the first cut. Dry matter output is very high. It is suitable for the long time.
Orchard Grass (Dactylis glomerata)
Lifetime:
Perennial Lenght : 60-120 cm. Plantation Rate: 2 - 3 Kg. Characteristics: It is suitable for warm and rainy areas. It grows fast and its shooting is high. It is a good forage plant grows in any kind of soil and in shadow. With a high yield and good taste for animals.
Birdsfoot Trefoil (Lotus corniculatus)
Lifetime:
Perennial Lenght : 50-100 cm. Plantation Rate: 2-2,5 Kg. Characteristics: It is a valuable forage plant which is resistant to cold and can easily be grown single or mixed. It is adeptable to any soil. It is very resistant to salinity. Plantation is good in spring time in areas with hard winter.
Smooth Brome (Bromus inermis)
Lifetime: Perennial Lenght : 50-100 cm. Plantation Rate: 2-3 Kg. Characteristics: Animal like it with feed mix. It is good for pasture. It can be mixed with other varieties of broms, as well with alfalfa and pasture in humide areas and with alfalfa in dry areas it a resitant for cold season.
Crimson Clover (Trifolium incarnatum)
Lifetime:
Annual Lenght : 50-100 cm. Plantation Rate: 4-5 Kg. Characteristics: It is a good forage plant adapted to most of weathers and soils, resistant to cold and drought. It is cultivated in early autumn. Known As being a tasty and nutrious plant it is suitable for spring and fall for pasture.
Canola
Sainfoin (Onobychis sativa)
Lifetime: Perennial Lenght : 60-120 cm. Plantation Rate: 10-15 Kg. Characteristics: A very well resistant plant for cold. It doesn’t need a certain soil specefication, well resistant to salinity. Its grass is nutritive with high protein and rich minerals. It is a good meadow plant. It can be used both single or mixed with special feed mixes.
Hungarian Vetch (Vicia pannonica)
Lifetime:
Annual Lenght : Semi-vertical Plantation Rate:: 15 - 20 Kg / da Characteristics: It is resistant to cold and drought. Fall cultivation can also be made in the conditions of Middle Anatolia. It gives a good production in dry conditions. It can be planted eighter mixed or single
Corn
Fairway Crested Wheatgrass (Agrropyron cristatum)
Lifetime:
Perennial Lenght: 50-100 cm. Plantation Rate: 2-3 Kg. Characteristics: It is a very good meadow plant likely by animals and can be well resistant for trafic. It can be cultivated in any kind of soil and especially cultivated in humid regions. It can be mixed with alfalfa to be used in mixtures for meadows.
Sudangrass
Sudan Grass is a new forage plant suitable for the warm climates. It is an hybrid between sudan grass and sorgum bicolor. SUSU may have the lenght of 2.5 meters and it has the highest nutritive level when it is cut at the lenght of 1.20-1.30 meters. SUSU can be given to animals as fresh green grass or as silaj.
Subterranean Clover (Trifolium subterraneum)
Lifetime:
Annual Lenght : Oblique Plantation Rate: 1-2 Kg. Characteristics: It is a tasty plant used commonly for animal feed. It can be considered as perennial because of its feature of regenerating itself with droping seeds. It is generally used in the amelioration and protection of soil in meadows. It grows fast and it accomodate easly with growing environment. It is resistant to dry weather.
Alfalfa (Medicago sativa PLATO)
Lifetime:
Perennial Lenght: 80-160 cm. Plantation Rate: 2,5-3 Kg. Characteristics: It is the queen of all the forage varieties. It can be cultivated in every regions of Turkey. It gives 4-8 forms depanding on the ecological conditions. The grass yield changes about 4-10 tons. It is rich in vitamins, protein and minerals.