{"title":"ESTABLISHMENT OF LUCERNE IN PUMICE SOILS","authors":"J. N. Parle","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1962.24.1142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1962.24.1142","url":null,"abstract":"In some areas of the droughty pumice soils of the central North Island considerable difficulties have been experienced in attempts to grow lucerne, especially in the Reporoa and Galatea districts and to a less extent at Taupo. The work described in this paper was carried out at Galatea on an area of low fertility with no history of topdressing.","PeriodicalId":261810,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association","volume":"40 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":"131417623","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 VARIETIES","authors":"T. P. Palmer","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1962.24.1145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1962.24.1145","url":null,"abstract":"Lucerne (Medicago sativn) is probably the oldest forage plant known. It is a native of northern Persia. From there it has been spread by man throughout most of the temperate regions of both hemispheres, and it is an important forage plant wherever lack of soil moisture limits summer production (1).","PeriodicalId":261810,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association","volume":"8 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":"125647002","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 INFLUENCE OF CATTLE ON PASTURE COMPOSITION AND SECOND GROWTH CONTROL","authors":"E. Madden","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1962.24.1156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1962.24.1156","url":null,"abstract":"The observations, over some years, relate to two steep hill country stations where cultivation could not be undertaken and no topdressing had been done. By reducing sheep and increasing cattle, beneficial changes in pasture composition were achieved. In one case cattle were rotationally grazed; in the other they were set stocked. One property is on the East Coast toward Cape Runaway and is bounded by the sea on one side; the hills rise to about 1,000 ft. The other station is inland toward Raetihi and lies between 1,500 and 2,500 ft; the hills are very steep and valleys very narrow. Climatic conditions at the two places are quite different. Mild and fairly equable conditions prevail on the coastal station and there is only a short period of winter dormancy. Cold winters and a longer period of winter dormancy are characteristic of the inland station. Both places have a fairly well distributed rainfall of over 60 in.; short summer droughts occur.","PeriodicalId":261810,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association","volume":"126 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":"131765360","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":"SOILS OF MARLBOROUGH","authors":"H. Gibbs, C. G. Vucetich","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1962.24.1155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1962.24.1155","url":null,"abstract":"Marlborough is a particularly interesting province because it is the meeting ground for the soils and the farming from the North and South Islands of New Zealand. The central Awatere and Wairau districts have a landscape succession of coastal plains, downlands, hills, inland basins, and mountain slopes with similar soils, crops, and grassland usage to Canterbury. East and west of these districts the Kaikoura and Sounds regions have extensive areas resembling those of Wellington and Wairarapa hill country in soils, grassland farming, and forestry. Further contrast to the soil pattern is added by soils formed from basaltic, ultrabasic, and limestone rocks, which outcrop over small areas. After more than 100 years of settlement the land use has become related generally to the soils, but the connection could be much closer and to greater benefit, if the soil differences were better known and applied to the selection of farm practices. With the wide range of soil occurring in Marlborough, landowners need an understanding of their soils to select where best to apply experience from other districts and how to modify their practices to suit changing economic conditions.","PeriodicalId":261810,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association","volume":"93 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":"122090068","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":"YORKSHIRE FOG AS A PASTURE GRASS","authors":"W. Jacques","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1962.24.1139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1962.24.1139","url":null,"abstract":"Yorkshire fog probably has its centre of origin in the Iberian Peninsula, but as a result of continued colonisation since the end of the ice age is now found throughout Europe and North-west Africa. Under the influence of human pastoral activities the species has spread to all the more recently developed farming areas in the temperate regions of the Americas, South Africa, and Australasia.","PeriodicalId":261810,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association","volume":"23 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":"129129895","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":"MAGNESIUM DEFICIENCY IN PASTURES","authors":"R. Moody","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1962.24.1140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1962.24.1140","url":null,"abstract":"A major break through in plant nutrition work occurred in 1958, when G. M. Will, of the Forest Research Institute, Whakarewarewa, Rotorua, clearly showed that the yellow stunted growth in seedling trees could be quickly corrected by the application of magnesium. This showed that the nursery soil was deficient in magnesium for tree growth; the burning question was, is this soil so deficient in available magnesium that a response will be obtained from an application to pasture plants? The answer was a definite yes, and for the first time we had a pasture trial giving significant responses to applied magnesium.","PeriodicalId":261810,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association","volume":"28 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":"132640851","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 IMPACT OF AERIAL TOPDRESSING ON A MARLBOROUGH HILL COUNTRY FARM","authors":"E. Scherp","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1962.24.1151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1962.24.1151","url":null,"abstract":"The effects of the aerial sowing of fertiliser and seed have been far-reaching and have had considerable impact on stock and management. The description of these changes and developments can best be given by telling the story of the property and this is done by dealing with it in four parts: 1. Location and description of the property. 2. Topdressing history and present practice. 3. Stock numbers and wool and stock production. 4. Production potential with topdressing and a cattle and sheep association.","PeriodicalId":261810,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association","volume":"79 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":"132694418","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":"FARMING IN MARLBOROUGH","authors":"J. Beggs","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1962.24.1154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1962.24.1154","url":null,"abstract":"There is little chance in dealing with a wide subject such as this in the short period of 20 minutes of doing justice to the various facets of farming in Marlborough Province and I can only hope to outline briefly the more important types of farming and perhaps to stress the more striking features of primary production in the area.","PeriodicalId":261810,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association","volume":"60 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":"127204503","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":"REVIEW SESSION","authors":"S. Saxby","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1962.24.1147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1962.24.1147","url":null,"abstract":"There was no formal presentation of these papers as the audience had been asked to read them prior to this session. Mr Saxby discussed aspects of each briefly, and the authors added comment and showed slides to illustrate methods of control.","PeriodicalId":261810,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association","volume":"14 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":"114602488","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":"PHOSPHORUS AND SULPHUR FERTILISATION : SOME RECENT lNVESTlGATIONS IN CANTERBURY","authors":"W. Lobb","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1962.24.1152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1962.24.1152","url":null,"abstract":"Although the importance of sulphur and its relationship to soil deficiencies has been realised for only the past 10 years in New Zealand, it is now history that it assumes equal importance with phosphorus for a very large area in the South Island.","PeriodicalId":261810,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association","volume":"58 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":"126857449","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}