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Nutritive Value of Pasture. VII. The Influence of the Intensity of Grazing on the Yield, Composition and Nutritive Value of Pasture Herbage (Part III).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

H. E. Woodman
Affiliation:
The Institute for the Study of Animal Nutrition, School of Agriculture, Cambridge University
D. B. Norman
Affiliation:
The Institute for the Study of Animal Nutrition, School of Agriculture, Cambridge University
M. H. French
Affiliation:
The Institute for the Study of Animal Nutrition, School of Agriculture, Cambridge University

Extract

The object of this series of investigations is to secure detailed information concerning the composition, digestibility and nutritive value of pasture herbage in its different stages of growth. The results which were obtained in these respects by cutting the herbage of the experimental pasture plot at weekly, fortnightly and 3-weekly intervals have been described in previous communications. During the seasons of the present investigations (1929 and 1930), the trials have been carried a stage further by the adoption of a system of cutting at monthly intervals. The results, therefore, are invested with special significance, in that a period of four weeks has been tentatively adopted in this country as the interval which is allowed to lapse, in rotational grazing practice, between successive grazings of pasture enclosures.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1931

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