In order to obtain fodder with a balanced sugar-protein ratio, as well as to improve nitrogen nutrition of crops and preserve soil fertility, many scientists suggest growing mixed crops of leguminous and cereal crops. Therefore, the issue of studying the specifics of the reaction of plants of leguminous and cereal crops to the conditions of their cultivation, identifying the regularities of the formation of fodder agrophytocenoses and developing effective methods of managing their productivity (selection of grass species in annual grass mixtures, setting norms and doses of mineral fertilizers, etc.

According to Ukrainian scientists, the green mass of spring triticale is characterized by a high digestibility of organic matter: 82.2% in the tuber phase, 77.1% in the earing phase. At the same time, the digestibility of crude protein was equal to 80.6 and 77.1%, respectively, and fiber – 90.2 and 88.1%, respectively. The above data indicate a rather slow lignification of spring triticale plants. This allows you to use its green mass for fodder purposes for 11–13 days without a sharp decrease in its quality.