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Publication Date
1993
Location
New Zealand
Description
Duration of autumn grazing may affect the long-term balance of grass and legume in a sward. Effects of early and late autumn closing dates were studied on productivity and morphology of orchardgrass (Dactylis glomerata) and white clover (Trifolium repens) in replicated grazed swards. Early-closed paddocks continued to accumulate herbage during autumn, resulting in greater winter senescence than late-closed paddocks. Spring-cut herbage mass was not affected by autumn management; however, late closing had significantly more clover than early closing. Early-closed paddocks were grass domlnanl, with few relatively large tillers and few clover growing points compared with late-closed paddocks at the end of each grazing season. Late closing resulted in more than twice as many clover growing points as early-closed. Stolon mass was greater, but starch and total non-structural carbohydrate contents were less during autumn in late- than in early-closed paddocks. Improvement in clover growing point density and stolon mass in the late-closed treatment may favour clover persistence in mixed swards.
Citation
Belesky, D P.; Fedders, J M.; and Laidlaw, A S., "Autumn Management of Grass-legume Pasture" (1993). IGC Proceedings (1985-2023). 15.
(URL: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/igc/1993/session11/15)
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Autumn Management of Grass-legume Pasture
New Zealand
Duration of autumn grazing may affect the long-term balance of grass and legume in a sward. Effects of early and late autumn closing dates were studied on productivity and morphology of orchardgrass (Dactylis glomerata) and white clover (Trifolium repens) in replicated grazed swards. Early-closed paddocks continued to accumulate herbage during autumn, resulting in greater winter senescence than late-closed paddocks. Spring-cut herbage mass was not affected by autumn management; however, late closing had significantly more clover than early closing. Early-closed paddocks were grass domlnanl, with few relatively large tillers and few clover growing points compared with late-closed paddocks at the end of each grazing season. Late closing resulted in more than twice as many clover growing points as early-closed. Stolon mass was greater, but starch and total non-structural carbohydrate contents were less during autumn in late- than in early-closed paddocks. Improvement in clover growing point density and stolon mass in the late-closed treatment may favour clover persistence in mixed swards.
