Adoption of forage technologies

Authors

  • John Caradus
  • Simon Lovatt
  • Bruce Belgrave

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.2013.75.2917

Abstract

Pastoral farmers seek to continue to increase on-farm productivity, and to do this they need new forage options that they can adopt into their current management strategies. Four case studies show that New Zealand farmers have rapidly adopted new technologies that include forage herbs, white clovers with improved stolon growing point densities, and novel endophyte technologies. The less disruptive these technologies are to accepted farmer management strategies the greater the likelihood of adoption. Keywords: Forage technologies, adoption, chicory, white clover, endophytes

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2013-01-01

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