Spring Vetch "Hanka" (1000 g)

* Common Vetch - Vicia sativa.
Vetch is one of the most common annual grasses in the legume family.
Two varieties are the most popular: winter vetch (hairy vetch) and spring vetch (sown vetch).
Vetch's popularity stems from the fact that it is grown for high-quality feed: 1 centner of vetch hay is equivalent to 46 feed units (each feed unit contains 123 grams of protein).
The yield of green fodder can reach 400 c/ha, and the yield of vetch hay can reach up to 80 c/ha.
Vetch can be grown in mixed crops with cabbage, oats, and peas.
A key feature of spring vetch cultivation for green fodder and hay is sowing the crop in occupied fallow.
Mixed crops of oats and vetch are used to obtain additional fodder as catch crops during the final harvest of winter and early grains, the purpose of which is to harvest grain. They are also used after pea and vetch mixes intended for green fodder, early potatoes, and winter rye.
A mixture of winter vetch with winter rye or winter wheat is sown as a fallow-occupying crop. When sowing in the spring, it is placed in a spring field set aside for growing annual grasses for green fodder.
Soil cultivation for spring vetch is similar to field preparation for early spring grains.
Vetch seeds are planted at a depth of 2-4 cm. The seeding rate for a mixture of spring vetch and oat seeds is approximately 110-130 kg/ha and 80-90 kg/ha, respectively, while for a mixture of winter vetch and rye, the rates are 60-80 kg/ha and 100-120 kg/ha, respectively. Vetch is mown for green fodder during the budding phase or early flowering, for hay during the peak flowering period, and for silage, it is mown when the pods are actively forming.