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GRASSLAND RESEARCH AND THE FUTURE *
Author(s) -
Duckham A. N.
Publication year - 1958
Publication title -
grass and forage science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.716
H-Index - 56
eISSN - 1365-2494
pISSN - 0142-5242
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2494.1958.tb00128.x
Subject(s) - animal husbandry , cropping , ecology , shadow (psychology) , agroforestry , environmental resource management , biology , agriculture , environmental science , psychology , psychotherapist
It seems to me that during the next 20 years:(a) grass as a feed will increasingly over‐shadow grass as a break in tillage cropping or as a fertility builder (b) the current rapid progress in biochemistry, plant physiology, radiation biology and the physical sciences may revolutionise our knowledge of applied ecology and genetics (c) as a result of such research, scientific principles will replace much of the present patchwork of empirical husbandry knowledge (d) these developments, plus forthcoming changes in labour costs and in grazing, harvesting and conservation techniques will call for a drastic re‐appraisal of much of our current thinking and practice in sward establishment and management; this will involve more applied ecological research (e) the scientist's laboratory and the engineer's workshop will become more important in grassland research whilst husbandry experiments will increasingly depend on scientific instrumentation.