{"title":"RESIDUAL EFFECT OF PHOSPHATE TOPDRESSING ON A YELLOW-BROWN LOAM","authors":"W. Saunders, W. Taylor, B. Gold","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1963.25.1158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1963.25.1158","url":null,"abstract":"Annual phosphate topdressing has been needed on the yellowbrown loams of Taranaki to maintain vigorous productive pastures. There is, however, a wide range of opinion as to what is the optimum rate of topdressing and what is the optimum phosphorus status for pasture production","PeriodicalId":261810,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1963-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132096851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"HERBAGE QUALITY","authors":"A. T. Johns","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1963.25.1166","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1963.25.1166","url":null,"abstract":"The defining of the ideal balance of chemical compounds in the feed of ruminants, with their two-stage digestive system, is most difficult. We must consider not only the compounds as they exist in the plant itself, but also the products of their microbial fermentation in the animal's first two stomachs. A toxic substance may be detoxified or a harmless compound rendered harmful. The mineral balance may be altered in the animal and vitamins synthesised. The energy providing substances of the food are converted into an entirely different class of compounds in the rumen before being utilised by the animal. In this regard the physical state of the food may be as important as its chemical composition and the quality of the herbage may have to be defined in terms of the animal end product required","PeriodicalId":261810,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1963-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127718181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE PLACE OF LUCERNE 1N DRY-LAND FARMING","authors":"A. H. Flay","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1962.24.1144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1962.24.1144","url":null,"abstract":"Lucerne as a dry-land fodder plant is centuries old. It is used in most lands subject to dry summer conditions. Its deep rooting characteristic, its winter dormancy, and its rapid growth in high temperatures fit it for use in a wide range of climatic and soil conditions. It is readily eaten as hay or in the green state by all classes of stock. It will, however, not tolerate waterlogged or acid soils. To establish the place of lucerne in dry-land farming it is necessary to examine a number of factors, the most important being the seasonal nature of its growth, the grazing management to which it must be subjected, and the effect a large area of lucerne can have on the overall carrying capacity of the farm. Finally, to demonstrate more clearly the place of luccrnc on a ploughable dry land farm, it is necessary to construct a farm unit with the maximum arca in lucerne.","PeriodicalId":261810,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1962-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114949968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"LUCERNE SEED PRODUCTION","authors":"G. A. Avery","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1962.24.1143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1962.24.1143","url":null,"abstract":"Lucerne is grown for seed chiefly in Marlborough and North Canterbury with a small amount in Mid Canterbury. The variation in the areas harvested from year to year indicates two important factors regarding lucerne seed production: 1. That most farmers regard lucerne as a catch crop. 2. The terrific influence climatic conditions have on seed yield.","PeriodicalId":261810,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1962-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116913109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"GROWTH INHIBITION IN SOME MARLBOROUGH SOILS","authors":"J.P. Beggs","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1962.24.1141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1962.24.1141","url":null,"abstract":"The problem I am going to discuss, which is seen in its most severe form on the Wither Hills near Blenheim, is predominantly one of securing clover establishment from oversowing, although unthrifty growth following establishment is apparently another facet of the same problem. The trouble does not appear to exist-certainly not in a severe form-when cultivation accompanied by liming and appropriate fertilising is adopted.","PeriodicalId":261810,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1962-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121970310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"AN EXPERIMENT IN CONTROL OF BRACKEN FERN AT TUTAKI, MURCHISON","authors":"R. Inch","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1962.24.1148","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1962.24.1148","url":null,"abstract":"The Murchison district has only a small area of flat land along its river valleys and at their confluence. Steep hills cover the remainder of the country. Rainfall is approximately 60 in. per year. When the land was originally cleared bracken fern (Pteridium esccrlentum) became a menace. The struggle over the years to control this invasion has been long and strenuous and, except on land that can be cultivated, largely unrewarded. Some degree of control has been achieved on the closer hills, but generally results have not been good. Murchison Federated Farmers in 1958 asked the Department of Agriculture to conduct some experimental work to find out how this weed could be handled economically.","PeriodicalId":261810,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1962-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132642374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PROBLEMS OF SCRUB CONTROL","authors":"W. F. Leonard","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1962.24.1149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1962.24.1149","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the distribution of the main scrub weeds in the South Island of New Zealand and offers comments on their control. Climate, soils, and farm management practices set the pattern for the distribution and importance of scrub weeds. Wide variation in all three can be found in the South Island.","PeriodicalId":261810,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association","volume":"605 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1962-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134367076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"FORMULATION OF A RATlONAL FERTILISER PROGRAMME IN TUSSOCK COUNTRY","authors":"T. Ludecke","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1962.24.1153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1962.24.1153","url":null,"abstract":"New Zealand agriculture is primarily dependent on the growth of high-producing pastures which rely on legumes for their nitrogen supply. Legumes under favourable conditions are able to. fix large amounts of nitrogen through nodule bacteria attached to their roots. Nitrogen is supplied to grasses by underground transference after the needs of the host plant are satisfied, and is also provided from the urine and dung of grazing animals. Almost invariably, poor pasture growth in New Zealand is the result of low legume production. Contributing factors to this are a poor supply of available phosphorus, sulphur, molybdenum, and potassium, ineffective nodulation, and acid soil conditions.","PeriodicalId":261810,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1962-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125952554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. W. McLean, G. G. Thomson, C.E. Lversen, K. Jagusch, B. M. Lawson
{"title":"SHEEP PRODUCTION AND HEALTH ON PURE-SPECIES PASTURES","authors":"J. W. McLean, G. G. Thomson, C.E. Lversen, K. Jagusch, B. M. Lawson","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1962.24.1150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1962.24.1150","url":null,"abstract":"The primary objective of this trial is to obtain basic data on the problem of so-called \"ill-thrift\" by relating soil conditions and seasonal changes in production and chemical composition of pure stands of various pasture species to the growth and health of the grazing. animals-in other words, a study of soil-pasture-animal relationships. In addition, the effects of certain trace elements and anthelmintics on lamb thrift have been studied. This paper summarises some of the results obtained during the second year of the trial.","PeriodicalId":261810,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1962-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127553968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"BEEF CATTLE AND SHEEP ON HILL COUNTRY FARMS","authors":"F. L. Ward","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1962.24.1146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1962.24.1146","url":null,"abstract":"Beef in the Old World was frequently a by-product of cattle used for other purposes, as cattle were once the main motive power on farms. It was not until after they were superseded by horses as draught animals that they were reared and fed primarily for beef.","PeriodicalId":261810,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association","volume":"38 10","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1962-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132089810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}