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THE ROLE OF GREEN SOILING IN THE ECONOMY OF THE DAIRY FARM
Author(s) -
Moore Ian,
Williams H. T.
Publication year - 1961
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.1365-2494.1961.tb00238.x
Subject(s) - grazing , production (economics) , perfection , business , environmental science , agricultural engineering , agricultural science , agronomy , agricultural economics , agroforestry , natural resource economics , economics , biology , engineering , philosophy , epistemology , macroeconomics
With modern machinery and modem techniques of grass production, mechanical‐or zero‐grazing offers a means of utilizing the crop to perfection. Whether this results in enhanced profits depends largely upon the farm and the specific circumstances. It may, it may not. What is evident is that the health of the cows is not affected by an unnatural manner of summer feeding; the sward, per se, may be improved by the regular and uniform defoliation; and under conditions of intensive production and the vital need to use profitably every blade of grass, as for instance on small, highly‐rented farms, the practice of zero‐grazing merits the most careful consideration. It cannot lightly be dismissed as merely a new fad.