Vetch is a multi-purpose annual grain legume species grown mostly as a disease break crop, in rotation with cereals, in a wide range of soil types from light sands to heavier clay. The versatility of vetch allows cropping for grain or hay, early grazing as green pasture, dry grazing or green manure production. Grain or multi-purpose vetches are grown in the lower to mid-rainfall cereal areas and their grain yields have been similar to field pea. Vetch offers a substantial amount of nitrogen fixation benefit for the following pasture or crop.