Dairy Pastures Benefit By Wintering Of Herd On Rough Feed Run-Off
Keeping stock off the pastures on heavy dairying land in the winter is of immense benefit. Excesivelyhard grazing at a season when recovery is slow, and the harmful effects of pugging of the waterlogged soil, are thus avoided. Any area for wintering cows off the farm must provide some rough grazing, be close to the source of supplementary feed, be accessible to permit a watchful eye being kept on stock, and lend itself to feeding off (dry areas where farm machinery can gain easy access). On the Hauraki Plains and the Kairanga (Manawatu) wintering-off is almost an essential part of the management.
Returns from these “run-off” areas will be low—they are usually grazed by yearlings. and sheep during the spring, spelled during the autumn and grazed again in the winter. However, if the added productivity of the home farm be calculated," these run-off areas must provide a handsome return. Besides being almost as cheap as buying in hay, renting run-off has the marked advantage of enabling the main dairying area to provide early pasture growth and large yields.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 48, 21 May 1948, Page 6
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189Dairy Pastures Benefit By Wintering Of Herd On Rough Feed Run-Off Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 48, 21 May 1948, Page 6
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