Abstract
AbstractThe establishment of subterranean clover (Trifolium subterraneum L.) pasture sown with a cereal companion crop (barley, Hordeum vulgare) was studied on nine sites in the Sacramento Valley and adjacent foothills in California. Where grain yields were 2,000 kg/ha or less and soil moisture was adequate in April (last month of the rainy season), undersown clover produced 300 to 500 kg/ha of seed, over 100 seeds per plant, and yields of grain were not reduced by the undersowing. Thus, in areas better suited to grazing than to cereal farming, a cereal companion crop can increase the forage produced in the first year of sowing while still allowing good growth and seed production of subterranean clover.
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