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The Performance of Summer Calving Cows on Different Grass Swards

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 November 2017

G.E.J. Fisher ,
A. Dowdeswell  and
D.J. Roberts
G.E.J. Fisher
Affiliation:
The Scottish Agricultural CollegeAuchincruive, Ayr
A. Dowdeswell
Affiliation:
The Scottish Agricultural CollegeAuchincruive, Ayr
D.J. Roberts
Affiliation:
Crichton Royal FarmDumfries
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The U.K. Milk Marketing Boards are encouraging dairy farmers to produce more milk in the summer months. However, the management of May to July calving cows is difficult as peak yield and intake requirement coincide with declining grass growth and quality. One means of overcoming this problem has been to offer a forage buffer as an extra feed to supplement the intake of grazed grass. The objective of this experiment was to investigate optimising the performance of summer calving cows by manipulating grass sward morphology to improve grazing intakes and eliminate the need for a forage buffer.

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Forage Utilisation
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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production (1972) , Volume 1991 , March 1991 , pp. 100
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Production 1991

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