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(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1984)A dryland lucerne (Medicago sativa L.) grazing trial to compare cv Wairau and a winter-active cultivar, Rere, was conducted over a two and a half year period using mixed aged ewes. Four cool-season grazing treatments were imposed; no cool-season grazing, ...
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(Lincoln University, 2015)While 30 years of literature shows that lupins will thrive in the high country, there is little data on livestock performance of sheep fed lupin. Black et al. (2014) recently showed sheep performance on lupin was similar to that on control pastures but du ...
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(Lincoln University, 2015)Leguminous fodder crops such as lucerne contain oestrogenic substances and their precursors that may interfere with reproduction in sheep. There is no definite information about the actual levels of oestrogenicity of New Zealand lucerne crops and the magn ...
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(Lincoln University, 2014)Lucerne (Medicago sativa L.) is a high value perennial forage legume. It is deep-tap rooted, has high water use efficiency and is tolerant of drier environments. It produces high quantity and quality dry matter (DM). Yet, there was a lack of data on the i ...
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(Lincoln University, 2015)A field experiment was conducted to quantify the water use and nitrogen uptake of lucerne and cocksfoot-lupin pastures under dryland conditions. To do this, the study made use of established pastures located at Lincoln University, Lincoln and Sawdon Stati ...
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(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1977)Grass and legume seedlings were planted to form legume and legume-grass swards on north-facing hill slopes at two sites in North Canterbury. At Hunua “College Glutinosa” lucerne and "Grasslands Nui" perennial ryegrass or "Grasslands K1950" cocksfoot were ...
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(Canterbury Agricultural College, University of New Zealand, 1959)The importance of pasture and pasture plants in soil conservation in world agriculture cannot be gainsaid. Unfortunately pasture lands heir to a large number of problems such as ravages of serious erosion in most parts of the world. Thus grassland managem ...
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(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1972)Over recent years, there has been a considerable increase in the area of lucerne grown in New Zealand, particularly that used for grazing. The total for conservation and grazing increased from 19,000 ha in 1947 to about 145,000 ha in 1968 (White, 1968) an ...
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(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1970)In the South Island of New Zealand there are more than ten million acres of tussock and danthonia grassland. Many research workers and farmers have shown that much of this area can be greatly improved by the introduction of clovers. However in the semi-ar ...
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(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1972)In recent years there has been an upsurge of interest in lucerne as a pasture plant for prazing, either sown alone of in a mixture. This has been accompanied by an increased interest in the effect of a higher proportion of M. falcate genes on the agronomi ...