For pasture planting, we need to make appropriate decisions based on pasture species, soil conditions, cultivation conditions, climate conditions and other factors. Common forage planting methods include broadcast sowing, drill sowing, and hole sowing. Below I will introduce to you the advantages and disadvantages of several methods.

Corngrass

1. Broadcasting: Spreading seeds evenly on the surface of the soil without digging ditches, holes, row spacing, or plant spacing. After sowing, the seeds should be sown in a timely manner. Rake and cover the soil. This method of spreading has no row spacing and is convenient for sowing. However, the sowing should be as even as possible and the sowing depth should be controlled.

Advantages and Disadvantages: Weeds must be removed before sowing. Broadcasting is generally carried out by aircraft in large areas. Small areas can be spread directly manually. Broadcasting will lead to uneven distribution of seeds, different depths, uneven growth of seedlings, more weeds, inconvenient field management, and the seeding rate is slightly higher than other sowing methods. However, as long as the soil is carefully prepared and the seeding rate and seeding depth are appropriate, broadcasting is also a good method of sowing. This method of sowing is often used for grazing grasslands.

Alfalfa

2. Drill sowing: Drill sowing is the most common method used in pasture planting. Mechanical sowing is often used. One or more rows are trenched, sown and covered with soil at the same time to serve as pasture. The spacing between rows can be kept at about 15 to 30 centimeters, and it is mostly used when there is moisture, lots of rain, and good irrigation conditions.

Advantages and disadvantages: The advantages of drill sowing are neat seedling emergence, good ventilation and light transmission conditions, easy field management, and increased yield. Fertilization can be concentrated to achieve economical fertilizer use, such as alfalfa, oats, ryegrass, Pastures such as barley can be drilled. Among them, ryegrass drill and broadcast are both possible. The most common high-yielding pasture grasses, including bamboo grass, moist grass, sweet elephant grass, bullwhip, etc., are also mainly drilled.

Ryegrass

3. On-demand sowing: On-demand sowing is to sow holes according to a certain spacing between plants, usually in the same direction. The on-demand sowing method is beneficial to feed crops and shrubs with larger plant sizes. For growth, the seeds are sown in the holes with the same depth. You can use a seeding machine, but it is very labor-intensive if done manually.

Advantages and disadvantages: The on-demand method allows seedlings to emerge neatly. This method saves seeds and is convenient for field management. The disadvantage is that sowing is labor-intensive and is mainly used for propagation of seed fields or rare and precious grass seeds. Forage grasses such as silage corn and pineapple are mostly grown on demand.

For pasture planting, methods such as sowing with fertilizer and seedling transplanting can also be used.

Sweet sorghum

Sowing with fertilizer is a method that is carried out at the same time as sowing. The fertilizer strip is applied 4 to 6cm below the seed. The roots of the pasture are directly penetrated into the fertilizer area to facilitate the seedlings. Rapid growth during the period can improve the germination rate of seeds and the survival rate of seedlings.

Seedling transplanting involves selecting the substrate, cultivating the seedlings, drilling holes, sowing the seeds evenly into the center of the holes, then covering them with soil and watering them, and then transplanting when the seedlings grow to a certain height.