Možnosti využití luskovin v pícninářství

This bachelor thesis provides information about the most important fodder plants produced in the Czech Republic. Fodder is used as a feed material in several forms as fresh fodder, silage or processed by hot dry air. The suitability of particular species for these forms is mentioned in the thesis. There are some advantages in crop rotations with legumes resulted from their biological characteristics. One of them is nitrogen fixation which reduces the need of nitrogen fertilizers and it can have a positive influence on the yield of the following crop. The thesis is also focused on the possible ways of growing legumes, agrotechnology of crops sowed as a monoculture or with other components. We can reduce the negative characteristic of legumes if they are sowed with other components rather than in monoculture. One part of the thesis belongs to costs of production. The costs are showed on the example of pea sowed with lucerne