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THE EFFECT OF INTENSIVE SHEEP STOCKING OVER A FIVE‐YEAR PERIOD ON THE DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCTION OF THE SWARD
Author(s) -
Kydd D. D.
Publication year - 1966
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.1365-2494.1966.tb00487.x
Subject(s) - poa annua , biology , stocking , agronomy , grazing , lolium perenne , trifolium repens , agrostis stolonifera , context (archaeology) , habit , poaceae , zoology , psychology , paleontology , psychotherapist
A study of a sward sown to Lolium perenne and Trifolium repens was made so that the inter‐relationship of the plant and animal communities might be more fully understood within the context of a sheep husbandry experiment. At the higher of 2 stocking rates intensive grazing induced the grass species to assume a prostrate growth habit in the first year: at the lower rate of stocking this condition was less prevalent. The only species to invade the sward and make progress over the 5 years were Poa annua, P. trivialis. and Agrostis stolonifera . Some control of A. stohnifera was gained when grazed swards were cut for silage. The Poa species eventually made up about 50% of the ground cover of all swards.