Mixed cropping of maize–legume forages has advantages regarding yield and quality (Ibrahim et al., 2012) and LER remained maximum in all mixtures over the sole crops. Results clearly confirmed that maize–sesbania mixtures had superior yields to maize–cluster bean and maize–cowpea mixtures regardless of seed mixture ratio. Additionally, there was little difference in mixture DM yield across maize–sesbania mixtures and that maize–sesbania sown at 75:25 yielded equally well to the numerically higher yield-ing 50:50 maize–sesbania under the semiarid conditions similar to those at Faisalabad, Pakistan. Consequently, it is generally rec-ommended that farmers having small land holdings with limited resources adopt mixed cropping by sowing maize–sesbania mix-tures for higher DM yield, although a previous report (Ibrahim et al., 2012) demonstrates that increasing sesbania seed proportion in maize–sesbania forage to as high as 25:75 leads to higher nutritive value of the mixture.