Alfalfa-grass hay sun-cured ground (or Alfalfa-grass meal) (IFN 1-29-774) consists of the aerial part of a mixture of alfalfa and grass plants (predominantly alfalfa) that has been sun-cured and finely ground.

53. Recalls its resolution of 8 March 2011 on ‘The EU protein deficit: what solution for a long-standing problems’, and especially recital AF thereof, which states: ‘whereas, besides cereal and maize cultivation for feed and energy production, the use of extended crop rotation systems, on-farm mixed cropping and grass-clover mixtures, which can have major environmental and agronomic benefits, should be encouraged, since the growing of leguminous crops as part of a rotation system can prevent diseases, regenerate the soil, have a beneficial effect on the population of pollinators and protect the climate’, and recalls the importance of kee ...[+++]ping crop rotation as a key element of the so-called green component of the Common Agricultural Policy towards 2020;

Besides cereal and maize cultivation for feed and energy production, the use of extended crop rotation systems, on-farm mixed cropping and grass-clover mixtures can have major environmental and agronomic benefits, since the growing of leguminous crops as part of a rotation system can prevent diseases, regenerate the soil, have a beneficial effect on the population of pollinators and protect the climate.

AF. whereas, besides cereal and maize cultivation for feed and energy production, the use of extended crop rotation systems, on-farm mixed cropping and grass-clover mixtures, which can have major environmental and agronomic benefits, should be encouraged, since the growing of leguminous crops as part of a rotation system can prevent diseases, regenerate the soil, have a beneficial effect on the population of pollinators and protect the climate,

U. whereas, in terms of water management, in particular the use in animal feed production of leguminous crops – such as permanent grass-clover mixtures or mixtures of cereals and protein crops – and permanent soil coverage can substantially reduce the run-off of nutrients, especially nitrates and phosphates, into groundwater,

– (FR) Some 30 000 farms in the European Union cultivate grass and pulse seeds, the main species involved in this common organisation of the market. This is, therefore, most important to employment, producers’ incomes, the socio-economic balance of many regions, biodiversity and security of supply.