Prospects for high production from Canterbury Plains pastures
E.W. Vartha and K.F. O'Connor
Grasslands Division, D.S.I.R., Lincoln
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Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production.
1968, 28: 65-73
Limitations of traditional grass-clover pasture in Canterbury
are demonstrated. Research has shown that, on non-irrigated plains soils
of widely different texture, grazed lucerne-grass pasture produces much
more herbage than clover-grass pasture sown with improved varieties of
pasture plants bred for high year-round productivity. Very high levels
of herbage production in winter have been obtained from a new
cool-season-active tetraploid Western Wolths ryegrass sown on cultivated
high fertility soil. The association obtained by over-drilling such a
grass into established lucerne may offer considerable potential for
year-round increases in pasture productivity.
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