Yield and water use of temperate pastures in summer dry environments

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  • D.J. Moot
  • H.E. Brown
  • K. Pollock
  • A. Mills

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https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.2008.70.2724

Abstract

The water use efficiencies (WUE) of a range of temperate pasture species were calculated from measurements on several different dryland and irrigated pastures in Canterbury. The annual WUE ranged from 6.7 kg DM/ ha/mm for a dryland cocksfoot pasture to 40 kg DM/ha/ mm for a dryland lucerne crop grown on a Wakanui silt loam soil. Keywords: Cichorium intybus, Dactylis glomerata, Lolium perenne, Medicago sativa, Trifolium ambiguum, T. michelianum, T. pratense, T. repens, T. subterraneum

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2008-01-01

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