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Forage Yield and Quality of Winter Canola–Pea Mixed Cropping System

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  • Sultan Begna

    (USDA-ARS, San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Science Center-Water Management Research Unit, Parlier, CA 93648, USA)

  • Sangamesh Angadi

    (Agricultural Science Center at Clovis, New Mexico State University, Clovis, NM 88101, USA)

  • Abdel Mesbah

    (Agricultural Science Center at Clovis, New Mexico State University, Clovis, NM 88101, USA)

  • Rangappa Mathada Umesh

    (University of Agricultural Sciences, Raichur, Karnataka 584104, India)

  • Michael Stamm

    (Department of Agronomy, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA)

Abstract

Forage crop–dairy farming is an important agro-industry across the world. This system is intensive with high-input forage crops. In the United States (US) Southern Great Plains, the system is based primarily on high-input annual grass-type crops in monocropping approaches and requires diverse low-input broadleaf crops for strengthening its sustainability. Winter canola ( Brassica napus L. ) and pea ( Pisum sativum L. ) have the potential to provide forage crop diversity options with high forage yields of high quality. Winter canola and pea in mono- and mixed-cropping approaches at seeding ratios of canola/pea at 0:100, 25:75, 50:50, 75:25, and 100:0 were studied for yield and quality in 2015 and 2016 in Clovis, New Mexico (NM). Averaged over years, canola–pea at 75:25 and 50:50 seeding ratios produced similar biomass forage yield but higher than mono-pea by 43% and canola–pea at 25:75 and mono-canola cropping by 8%. The land equivalent ratio of all mixed-cropping treatments exceeded 1.0, with canola–pea at the 50:50 seeding ratio recording a land equivalent ratio of 1.15, indicating that mixed-cropping systems are better users of land resources. Total digestible nutrients and relative feed value were higher in canola–pea mixed cropping than in mono-canola and mono-pea cropping. Canola–pea mixed cropping achieved high yields (13.3 to 14.7 Mg·ha −1 ) with improved forage quality, as well as improved crop and land productivity, with the potential to improve mechanical harvestability of vining pea, and strengthen the diversity and sustainability of forage crop–dairy farming in the Southern Great Plains under limited irrigation input of ~300 mm.

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  • Sultan Begna & Sangamesh Angadi & Abdel Mesbah & Rangappa Mathada Umesh & Michael Stamm, 2021. "Forage Yield and Quality of Winter Canola–Pea Mixed Cropping System," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(4), pages 1-12, February.
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