Cereal forage breeding for New Zealand agriculture

Authors

  • Ross Hanson
  • Keith Armstrong
  • John de Ruiter
  • Andy Hay
  • Gavin Milne

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33584/rps.12.2006.3034

Abstract

Cereal forages provide both arable and livestock farmers with high yields of high quality dry matter to use as either standing or conserved strategic forage supplements where deficits occur when animal feed requirements exceed pasture growth. Crop & Food Research has breeding programmes for both single and multigrazing forage oats and triticales, and both green-chop and whole-crop silage forage oats, triticales and barleys. It also has an associated cereal forage management research and tech-transfer programme to ensure cereal forages achieve their potential under New Zealand's variable soil and climatic conditions. This has led to the development of new cereal forage cultivars, an increased understanding of their dry matter and quality development, and management support packages including a cereal silage booklet and maturity predictor for whole-crop cereal silage

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Published

2006-01-01

How to Cite

Hanson, R., Armstrong, K., de Ruiter, J., Hay, A., & Milne, G. (2006). Cereal forage breeding for New Zealand agriculture. NZGA: Research and Practice Series, 12, 25–30. https://doi.org/10.33584/rps.12.2006.3034

Issue

Vol. 12 (2006): Advances in Plant Breeding

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