Department
of Field Crops, Forage and Grassland

The Department uses 17 ha of the experimental station in Maksimir, located around the Faculty of Agriculture. For most of the experimental area (7.5 ha) field experiments with maize, wheat and other small grain cereals and soybeans are conducted interchangeably. On a smaller part of the experimental station (1.5 ha) experiments are conducted with sugar beet, oilseed rape, fiber and oil flax, grain amaranth, spelt, alfalfa, field pea, vetch, sorghum and so-called energy species Miscanthus and Giant cane. Alfalfa is planted on approximately 8 ha of the experimental station, and is used for storing haylage, as well as for the demonstration of contemporary agro-technical measures in storing forage. On the experimental station teaching in several modules takes place at undergraduate and graduate studies on the subject of field crops and forage crops. In addition, the experimental station is used for student practice and conducting scientific research and plant breeding activities in which students choose their topics for the final thesis and postgraduates prepare doctoral dissertations. For the aforementioned research, the experiment station is equipped with necessary machinery (tractor John Deere 84 hp and Fendt 40 hp, sowing machine for corn and soybean, sowing machine for stubble cereal, maize harvester, stubble cereal “Wintersteiger” harvester and mounted tractor implements such as: plows, disc harrow, rotary harrow, combinator, chipper, cultivator, etc.). In addition, the researchers use the equipment known under common name ‘small machinery’ (cultivator, sprayer, lawn mower, etc.). The laboratory premises have the equipment for cleaning, drying and shredding plant material (separator, dryer, grain counter, mill, scales, etc.).

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