Environmental conditions and crop density as the limiting factors of forage maize production

• Published in: Journal of agricultural sciences (Belgrade, Serbia) Vol. 61; no. 1; pp. 11 - 18
• Main Authors: Dragicevic, Vesna, Saponjic, Bojana, Terzic, Dusanka, Simic, Milena, Djordjevic, Nenad, Dumanovic, Zoran
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: University of Belgrade - Faculty of Agriculture, Belgrade 2016
• Subjects: energy; forage maize; quality; silage; yield
• ISSN: 1450-8109; 2406-0968
• DOI: 10.2298/JAS1601011D

In rain-fed cropping, defining the best combination of practices could
achieve high forage yield and silage quality. The aim of this study was to
compare energetic quality of produced silage with productive characteristics
of forage maize cultivated on alluvium and hydromorphous black soil in
rain-fed conditions at four plant densities (68-74,000 plants ha-1) during
the period 2005- 2010. Yield and energy parameters were increased to some
extent at higher crop densities indicating that higher densities (74,000
plants ha-1) were potentially better for high forage and DM yields, while
lower densities (70,000 plants ha-1) were better for the increase of energy
parameters of produced silage.