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• Incorporating plantain into ryegrass-white clover mixed sward for an economically and environmentally sustainable dairy system: Year one of a farm system study Plantain-based pasture for sustainable dairy systems

  Gayani Herath , Charissa Thomas, Natalie McMillan, Roshean Woods, Racheal Bryant , Omar Al-Marashdeh

  321-331

• Using leaf regrowth stage to define defoliation interval for diverse pastures of complementary species (Lolium perenne L., Bromus valdivianus Phil., Dactylis glomerata L. and Trifolium repens L.)

  Bia Oliveira, Ignacio Lopez, Lydia Cranston, Peter Kemp, Danny Donaghy

  311-322

• Five-year old diversified pasture delivers greater lamb liveweight gain than a standard perennial ryegrass-white clover pasture

  Thomas Maxwell, Hamish Cartwright, James Meyer, Omar Al-Marashdeh

  229-240

• Genetic modification – benefits and risks for New Zealand grassland production systems

  John Caradus

  41-51

• Challenges and opportunities for conducting on-farm research

  Graeme Doole, Katherine Tozer, Christian Sauermann, David Stevens, Jamie Ward

  85-93

• Predicitng yield of irrigated red clover (Trifolium pratense L.) pastures in response to temperature.

  Laura Keenan, Annamaria Mills, Malcolm Smith, Hamish Brown, Sarah McKenzie, Derrick Moot

  219-228

• Establishing tagasaste from seed in Waikato hill country

  Katherine Tozer, Grant Douglas, Caitlyn Dawbin, Rose Greenfield, Catherine Cameron

  41-48

• Understanding the impacts of climate change on lamb survival and lambing date in Southern New Zealand

  David Stevens, Marie Casey

  21-30

• Assessing soil health following conversion from forestry to pasture in Canterbury

  Nicole L Schon, Ants Roberts, Rhys Narbey

  123-130

• Profit, productivity, and eco-efficiency of using Caucasian clover/ grass pastures in hill country farms

  David Stevens, Anna Taylor

  177-188

• Total annual and seasonal DM production of improved and unimproved resident pastures at three farms in Canterbury

  Malcolm Smith, Annamaria Mills, Derrick Moot

  79-94

• Can low input dairy systems be economically and environmentally sustainable? Results from a farmlet study.

  Jacobus Christiaan Kok, Penelope Chapman, Helen Hague, Jeffery Curtis, Omar Al-Marashdeh, Pierre Beukes, Peter Amer, Racheal Bryant

  136-146

• A quantitative case study assessment of the biophysical and economic effects of three different feed management systems in a Northland farmlet trial

  Jane Kay, Chris Boom, Kim Robinson, Kerry Chestnut

  147-154

• Plantain dominated in mown mixed swards, but produced less than the original ryegrass-dominant sward

  Anna Taylor, Ray Moss

  73-78

• Tactical use of gibberellic acid and nitrogen fertiliser to improve production of perennial ryegrass and white clover swards

  Melanie Miller, Grant Edwards, Helen Hague, Racheal H. Bryant

  95-102

• Exploring farm level response to multiple drivers of change, a West Coast case study.

  Taisekwa Lordwell Chikazhe, Pierre Beukes, Dawn Dalley, Robyn Dynes, Kathryn Hutchinson

  131-138

• Responses of Lotus pedunculatus to sulphur fertiliser and defioliation regime in acid soils at low temperature

  David Stevens, Marie Casey, Charlie Bennett, Bryan Thompson, Nick Garden, Pat Garden

  49-56

• Water quality information for farmer decision making in the Nguturoa catchment, Manawatu

  Terry Parminter, Christine Finnigan

  165-176

• GPS technology as a tool to aid pasture management on dairy farms

  Wayne Hofmann, Mark Neal, Siimon Woodward, Tania ONeill

  189-196

• Mitigating the impacts of weather on lamb survival in Southern New Zealand

  David Stevens, Marie Casey

  11-20

• A survey comparing regeneratively and conventionally managed pastures and farm management policies

  Katherine Tozer, Rose Greenfield, Steven Howarth, Mustafa Farouk, Tracey Bayliss

  155-164

• Long-term measurement and modelling of net herbage accumulation in grazed pastures do not align with predictions under climate change

  Alec Mackay, Mike Dodd, Kathryn Hutchinson, Ronaldo Vibart, Brian Devantier, Franco Bilotto

  5-10

• Agronomic performance of summer forage crops on a Waikato dry-stock farm

  Tracy Dale, Katherine Tozer, Phil Weir, Maryann Staincliffe

  103-114

• Summer growth rates and annual yields of perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.) in the Upper North Island are expected to decline as a result of climate change

  Andrea Babylon, Simon Woodward, Pierre Beukes

  31-40

• Effect of weaning system on lamb growth, mammary gland development and ewe milk production in dairy sheep managed in an outdoor pasture-based commercial farming system

  Sue Anne McCoard, Shen-y Hea, Adrian Molenaar, Katherine Lowe, Marita Broadhurst, David Stevens

  197-208

• Mapping groundcover of clover species in hill pastures in Wairarapa

  Sonya Olykan, Richard Lucas, Derrick Moot

  57-66

• What are the best pasture improvement options for different South Island hill and high-country environments?

  Jeff Morton, Jim Moir, Derrick Moot

  115-122

• Quantification and mitigation of nitrogen leaching in a maize silage cropping system

  Rowland Tsimba, Tania Gunn, Raewyn Densley, Ian Williams, Greg Edmeades, Jamie Millar

  163-170

• AgYields - a national database for collation of past, present and future pasture and crop yield data

  Derrick Moot, Wendy Griffiths, David Chapman, Mike Dodd, Carmen Teixeira

  15-23

• Growth rates and persistence of annual and perennial clovers

  Sonya Olykan, Dick Lucas, Stu Hunter, Derrick Moot

  69-77

• Winter crop choice and body condition loss change the eco-efficiency of sheep flocks

  Anna Taylor, David Stevens, Sue McCoard

  215-224

• Forecasting the genetic and economic impacts of genomic selection in perennial ryegrass

  Brent Barrett, Zulfi Jahufer, Sai Arojju, Jude Sise, Marty Faville

  92-98

• Variable-rate application of fertiliser – a new tool for farm system and environmental performance?

  Warren King, Peter Pletnyakov, Anna Taylor, Chavi Ekanayake, Armin Werner

  201-213

• Response of white clover cultivars to sheep and beef cattle grazing management across three pastoral environments in New Zealand.

  Zulfi Jahufer, Angus , Greig, Derek Woodfield, John

  43-50

• Greenhouse gas emissions from New Zealand sheep and beef farms

  Ronaldo Eduardo Vibart, Grant Rennie, Kathryn Hutchinson, Andrew Burtt, Jane Chrystal, Robyn Dynes

  252-232

• Partial replacement of ryegrass and clover herbage with chicory to alter urination behaviour and soil nitrogen loading of grazing dairy cows

  Mancoba Christopher Mangwe, Racheal

  179-187

• Nitrogen effects on species’ contributions to grazed pasture mixtures under nitrogen loss and application restrictions

  Thinzar Soe Myint, Alistair Black, Derrick Moot

  25-33

• Comparing a covered stand-off pad for on/off grazing during winter with conventional winter block grazing 2017-19 at DTT Stratford Demonstration farm

  Graeme Pitman

  145-152

• Improving irrigation management on hillslope pastures

  Stephanie Langer

  135-144

• The development of Pallaton Raphanobrassica for New Zealand farming systems

  Andrew Dumbleton, Fiona Foley, Charlotte Westwood, Gemma Box

  107-114

• Nitrate effects on N2 fixation, growth and feed quality of lucerne and perennial lupin

  Eilish Burrows, Annamaria Mills, Dan Dash, Dave Jack, Mitchell Andrews, Alistair Black

  79-82

• Progress towards delivering high metabolisable energy ryegrass

  Zac Beechey-Gradwell Beechey-Gradwell

  99-106

• Developing genomic selection for dry matter yield in white clover

  Grace Ehoche, Sai Arojju, Anna Larking, Ruy Jauregui, Greig Cousins, Jessica O'Connor, Zulfi Jahufer, Andrew Griffiths

  83-90

• Sheep dung disappearance from grazed hill country landscapes

  Ronaldo Eduardo Vibart, Alec D. Mackay, Brian Devantier, Emma Noakes, Paul Maclean

  171-177

• Size of the prize: the value of closing pasture yield gaps on heterogeneous soil types in a dairy farm in Canterbury, New Zealand

  Anna Taylor, Mariana Andreucci, Sue Zydenbos

  189-199

• Empirical assessment of a genomic breeding strategy in perennial ryegrass

  Marty Faville, Jana Schmidt, Michael Trolove, Peter Moran, Won Hong, Mingshu Cao, Siva Ganesh, Richard George, Brent Barrett

  115-122

• The effect of winter fodder beet or kale allocation on behaviour and blood metabolite status of non-lactating dairy cows

  Dawn E. Dalley, J. Paul Edwards, Emma Masterson, Roshean Woods

  153-162

• Impact of change in body condition score in mid-late pregnancy in ewes fed a mixed diet on lamb survival and performance

  Sue McCoard, Shen-Yan Hea, Catherine McKenzie, Kirsty Hammond, Tim Smith

  211-219

• Mitigation of saturation in satellite pasture measurement via incorporation of a statistical pasture growth model

  Grant Anderson, Mitchell Rawlings, Graeme Ogle

  191-198

• Commercial practice of out-wintering dairy heifers in Great Britain

  Norton E. Atkins, Keith E. Walley, Liam A. Sinclair

  161-169