%0 Journal Article %T Estimation of usage and fertilization impact on quality of Festuca rubra pasture and sustainability of some technological variants %A Nicu£¿or F. Sima %A Ioan Rotar %A Rodica M. Sima %J Advances in Agriculture & Botanics %D 2010 %I %X The purpose of this research was to study the effect of some treatments (fertilization, oversowing,cutting, grazing) on a Festuca rubra mountain pasture from Cindrel Mountains (MeridionalCarpathians, Romania), in order to improve the quality of this pasture. Yearly fertilization with organicfertilizers or moderate chemical fertilization (N100P22K83 kg ha-1 y-1) positively influence some soil chemicalfeatures, the nutritional status with N of plants and the level of forage yields of this pasture. Theamplification of N biogeochemical cycle in the variants fertilized with moderate dozes of N determinessignificant increases of quantity and quality of forage production. %K Festuca rubra %K cutting %K grazing %K yield %K consumption efficiency %U http://www.aab.bioflux.com.ro/docs/2010.2.19-23.pdf