Cell signalling compound improves pasture and livestock productivity and the environment

Linking pasture, livestock productivity and vertebrate pest management

The study of pastures, pests (rabbits and caterpillars) and sheep productivity by Barlow (1987; New Zeal J Ecol 10: 43–55) is reviewed, updated and extended. Pasture growth was modelled as a dynamic process, though sheep and rabbit abundance were not dynamic. The model predicted that there was a parabolic relationship between sheep productivity and sheep stocking rate with the effects of rabbit...

Range and Pasture Productivity

Pasture and its dangers to livestock.

The Composition of Pasture Ruskin in Modern Painters eulogizes grass in the following words: “. . . judge whether of all the gorgeous flowers that beam in the summer air, and of all strong and goodly trees pleasant to the eye or good for food-stately palm and pine, strong ash and oak, scented citron, burdened vine-there beany so deeply loved, by God so highly graced, as that narrow point of fee...

Sodium in Pasture Species and Grazing Livestock

Organochlorine Residues in Pasture and Livestock

The occurrence and persistence of OC residues in both animal fat and in soil is reviewed. These chemicals have caused problems in production of pasture and grain for livestock. Management strategies to give short term guidelines to graziers are described. Attempts to increase the rate of breakdown in the soil under Australian conditions by varying frequency of cultivation, by addition of lime o...