The assessment of perennial cereal-leguminous grass mixtures in haying use in the Krasnoyarsk forest-steppe

The materials reflecting the influence of the composition, grass type and mowing phase on the grass mixture crop capacity are researched in the article. According to the authors’ data, in mowing in the ear-formation-budding phase the best mixtures in crop capacity are timothy 85 % + clover 40 %, timothy 85 % + lucerne 40 %, while mowing in the flowering and semination phase - they are timothy 85 % + lucerne 40 %, timothy 85 % + melilot 40 %, and timothy 95 % + lucerne 55 %.