Supplementary Feeding of Grazing Beef Cattle
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Some 60% of Australia% beef cattle are located in the tropics and subtropics, grazing, in general native pastures of low digestibility and N content. Production per head is low, as also are reproductive rates. The nutritional problem centres around the low contents of phosphorus, sulphur and nitrogen in pastures from June to December. This paper discusses responses in breeding cattle to supplements of protein meal, or to phosphorus when legumes have been oversown into native pastures.
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