Аннотация: The relevance of research is due to the need to develop the most rational methods of conservation of arable land that has been abandoned from circulation by creating sown meadows on it. When developing a wheatgrass deposit for haymaking, the most effective method of soil cultivation was moldboard plowing in combination with the preliminary destruction of the old grass stand with the hurricane forte herbicide. With direct sowing, grass stands were formed from sown grasses, and when grasses were sown into the sod, creeping wheatgrass remained the dominant component of the grass stand.