PASTURE MANAGEMENT AND HILL COUNTRY PRODUCTION

FORAGES AND PASTURE MANAGEMENT Herbage Productivity and Botanical Composition of Hill Pasture as a Function of Clipping and Site Features

factors influencing the distribution of prairie species in complex terrain in central Canada (Lieffers and LarkinComplex topography and varied soil of hill-land pastures create Lieffers, 1987). Slope aspect also influenced diversity microsite conditions that support an array of floristic associations and herbage production patterns. This complicates management for forage of naturalized flora oc...

Range and Pasture Management

Soil Nitrocxn and Pasture Management

The. seasonal pattern of nitrogen mineralization is described and compared with the potential demand for nitrogen by grasses. Peak mineralization rates occur in spring but are quite inadequate for expression of potential grass growth. Nitrogen fixation by clovers provides a significant input into the system over a short period. Consideration of the fate of fixed nitrogen shows that losses large...

An overview of current and potential hill country livestock systems

This paper reviews current production trends for sheep and beef cattle production in New Zealand and gives some insight into the opportunities for improvement. The New Zealand climate favours pasture growth and this is the key to sheep and beef cattle production with over 95% of the diet being grazed pasture or crop. Exports are the focus of the industry with 92% of sheep meat and 82% of beef e...

Forage and Pasture Management for Laminitic Horses

In the past, many cases of laminitis have been of mysterious origin. Recent investigations in veterinary medicine, coupled with the availability of new techniques for analyzing hydrolyzable carbohydrates in forage may provide evidence to solve some of these mysteries. Fructan has been shown to be capable of inducing laminitis in clinical studies. Insulin resistance, a primary feature of Equine ...