Better persistence and reliability of white clover (Trifolium repens L.) is critical in achieving a more competitive New Zealand farming industry. To persist, white clover must establish well and withstand the accumulated stresses of competition from associated grasses, grazing, variable soil fertility, drought, plus pest and disease pressure. These factors vary markedly with environment and fa...

THE KEY to improving the native tussock grasslands of the South Island is to obtain good legume growth. In these areas, the main nutrient deficiencies which limit the growth of legumes are sulphur, phosphorus and molybdenum. Sulphur deficiencies are very widespread (Walker et al., 195.5; Lobb and Bennetts, 1958; McLeod, 1961). The manner in which a rational fertilizer programme was formulated f...

Abstract Background Combinations of grasses and nitrogen-fixing legumes are ubiquitous in most natural derived pastoral grasslands. This was not formerly the case New Zealand’s unique indigenous grasslands that now frequently impacted by exotic pasture legumes. Understanding co-existence native plants is broad focus this research. Aims Spillover nitrogen (N) from clovers to diverse well known. ...

RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES The standard of preventive care for poorly controlled seasonal allergic rhinitis (AR) is subcutaneous immunotherapy (SCIT) with allergen extracts, administered in a physician's office. As an alternative to SCIT, sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT) is now an option for patients with seasonal AR. Oralair, a SLIT tablet containing freeze-dried allergen extracts of five g...

This study was designed to evaluate the effect of the physical form of a hay diet on total tract digestibility in ponies, with particular emphasis in ®bre digestion and digesta passage rate. Ten gelded ponies (four of them ®tted with cannulae in the cecum and the right-ventral colon) were kept on wood shavings and fed twice daily a maintenance diet of equal parts Lucerne and Cocksfoot hay. The ...