Intensive wintering of beef steers in Northland
P.W. Shannon and C. During
Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Whangarei and Ruakura
Agricultural Research Centre, Hamilton
Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production.
1980, 40: 268-271
A fertilizer x stocking rate trial showed, over the three winter-
spring periods of 1976-8, that nitrogen increased liveweight gain
(LWG)/head and LWG/ha of steers and reduced hay requirements. LWG/head
decreased with increasing stocking rate. LWG/ha increased with stocking
rate to reach a maximum and then decreased. Nitrogen increased the
range of stocking rates at which the maximum LWG/ha occurred, from 6.2-
7.4/ha to 6.8-8.0/ha.
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