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    Suitability of field pea:oat and common vetch:oat mixtures for ensiling
    (University of East Sarajevo, Faculty of Agriculture, Republic of Srpska, Bosnia, 2021-10-07) Marković, Jordan; Vasić, T.; Petrović, Mirjana; Milenković, Jasmina; Bekčić, Filip; Lazarević, Đorđe; Babić, Snežana
    The practice of preserving green crops by fermentation as silage has increased dramatically in recent years. Successful ensiling can be difficult due to numerous problems such as: high moisture content, high feed buffer capacity, insufficient amount of fermentable carbohydrates etc. The aim of this investigation was to determine the suitability for ensiling field pea:oat and common vetch:oat mixtures grown at different seeding rate and harvested at different stages of growth. Field pea, common vetch and oat were grown in pure stands and in the mixtures of 75:25, 50:50 and 25:75 ratios and harvested at three stages of plant development: beginning of field pea and common vetch flowering, forming the first pods in field pea and common vetch and at the forming green seeds in 2/3 field pea and common vetch pods. The most favorable ratio of sugar and buffer capacity for the established level of dry matter in the examined crops was stated in pure oat crop. The results obtained in the mixtures of field pea and oat are based on the ratioof sugar and buffer capacity and can successfully ensile in all three examined relations of germinating grains of field pea and oats. The highest sugar content (182.1 g kg-1 DM) and the highest buffer capacity were determined in the 50:50 field pea:oat mixture at the pea flowering stage of development. The least favorable ratio of sugar and buffer capacity was found in pure common vetch.