Farmlet Experiments To Improve Pasture Strains On N.Z. Farms
Five “farmlet” schemes, from which very interestijng and valuable information is expected; are being inaugurated by the Grasslands Division with the active cooperation of the Agronomy Division. Both organisations are Divisions of the Department of Scientific and Industrial/ Research, and ' these schemes are some of the lines . of development in the research for more productive New Zealand pastures.
The Grasslands Division of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research is responsible for the improvement of grasses and clovers by breeding and selection methods, for keeping existing stocks pure by producing nucleus stock seed each year, and for research into pasture problems generally. In increasing the yield of New Zealand.? pastures . the Division has, amongst other work on cultivation, given the farmer high-pro-ducing: strains of ryegrass and clovers, and. improved strains of cocksfoot and timothy. Several other trials are in band, some of which are an extension of earlier ones. Very interesting and valuable information is expected, amongst other investigations,, from the five farmlet schemes in which all the sheep will be weighed periodically, and their yield of wool recorded.
1. All-grass farm, where pasture is fed on a rotational grazing system with extra sheep brought in to cope with surpluses of growth.
0.2. All-grass farm, with a set number of sheep; any excess feed in the spring to be saved as hay or silage. • y ■, ’ 3. All-grass;-farm, with set flock; special: purpose pastures will be laid down and so managed as- to supply feed in normal low-produc-tion periods.
4. Part-grass farm (60 per cent), with set number of sheep and with supplementary fodder crops grown on the remaining 40 per cent of farm to provide for the periods of low production. 5. Grazing and arable farm.
At Palmerston North, farmlet schemes similar to the first four enumerated above, have already been started.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 1, 20 June 1949, Page 5
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311Farmlet Experiments To Improve Pasture Strains On N.Z. Farms Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 1, 20 June 1949, Page 5
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