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Pasture residuals the primary tool
Region: Northland
Date: 2010-05-10 | Category: Dairy News

Judging their pasture by eye rather than with meters or computers, management and staff on a Northland property have increased its output by 30,000kg milksolids (MS) a year.... Read full article »
Northland woe – grass quality in late autumn & winter assessed
Region: Northland
Date: 2010-04-12 | Category: Dairy News

Low drymatter content in Northland pastures through late autumn and winter may be implicated in poor milk production, especially for autumn-calving herds. Rapidly growing ryegrass and kikuyu pastures can be lush but lacking in drymatter (DM), which means they could be intake restricting, leading to poor milk production.... Read full article »
More frequent pasture renewal is perhaps the most effective way to get significant production gains in a New Zealand farm system
Don Nicolson

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