18 varieties of corn have been sown in a demonstration field in the Gryazovetsky District of the Vologda Region.

Specialists introduce new varieties of agricultural crops to provide livestock with balanced feed with high nutritional value.
To select varieties adapted to regional conditions, many farms conduct production trials to study vegetation, yield, and other quality characteristics.
For example, this year, the Order of the Red Banner of Labor Breeding Farm-Collective Farm named after the 50th Anniversary of the USSR in the Gryazovetsky District planted 18 varieties of corn with varying earliness, and another 11 were planted for corn silage.
The main goal of the farm's agronomy service is import substitution—selecting domestically bred varieties that are comparable to imported varieties in yield, cob formation, and grain starch content by harvest time.
This year, the breeding farm planted 559 hectares of corn. After harvest , agronomists will summarize the results and determine which variety produced the highest yield and silage nutritional value.
Farmers in the Vologda region have been successfully growing corn for silage for over 10 years. Farms practicing this practice include those in the Gryazovetsky, Vologda, Velikoustyug, Totemsky, and Tarnogsky districts, as well as the Sheksninsky district.
Companies with annual MILK yields of 10,000 kilograms or more per forage-fed cow have extensive experience growing corn. These include the Avrora Breeding Farm-Kolkhoz, Pokrovskoye Breeding Farm LLC, Zarya Breeding Farm JSC, and the Prisukhonskoye Agricultural Production Cooperative, among others. The cropping area at these farms ranges from 100 to 1,200 hectares. The total cropping area in the region currently stands at 5,100 hectares.
"To increase milk production, our farms are looking for ways to boost forage yields, feed digestibility, and metabolizable energy content—in other words, everything that can improve feed palatability, increase milk yield, and improve the economic performance of agricultural enterprises. Corn is emerging as a promising forage crop in the Vologda region," noted Sergei Poromonov, HEAD of the Vologda Region's Department of Agriculture.