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## Summary Different procedures for autumn management in crops of __Festuca pratensis__ grown for seed, in particular the possibility of combining seed production with the production of forage in autumn, were examined in eleven experiments conducted between 1993 and 1996 at various locations in south‐east Norway. Methods without intensive use of regrowth, such a nitrogen (N) fertilizer application (40 Kg N ha^−1^) on 10 the September, either separately or preceded by cutting on the same date, generally stimulated the subsequent number of reproductive tillers and seed yield compared with untreated plots (no N, no cuting). However, cutting before N fertilizer application on 10th September tended to have a nagative effect on seed yield in 1995–96, when a mild autumn was followed by a winter with extremely low temp ratures and no, or very little, snow cover. Maximizing regrowth, by the application of 80 kg N fertilizer ha^−1^ immediately after seed harvest, never impaired seed yield when a forage harvest was taken on 10 September but did so in 1995–96, when a forage harvest was delayed to 10 October. Additional N (40 kg ^−1^) after a forage harvest did not significantly affect seed yie

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Author

L.T. Havstard

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (Blackwell Publishing); Blackwell Publishing Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0142-5242)

Published

1998

Language

EN

Field

Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)