Open AccessGRAZING MANAGEMENT ON HILL COUNTRY
Author(s) -
C.J. Hamblyn
Publication year - 1955
Publication title -
proceedings of the new zealand grassland association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1179-4577
pISSN - 0369-3902
DOI - 10.33584/jnzg.1955.17.1049
Subject(s) - grazing , pasture , flock , agriculture , agroforestry , geography , grassland , agricultural economics , agronomy , forestry , ecology , environmental science , economics , biology , archaeology
At the 1947 Conference of the 'New Zealand Grassland Association at Palmerston North a considerable amount of interest was shown in a short paper by a young Manawatu hill country farmer as part of a symposium on "Pasture Grazing Management." In the paper a system of sheep grazing management very different from that commonly practised on our hill country by sheep farmers was described, and the results in increased carrying capacity of the farm for the comparatively short time the new grazing method had been in operation were given. The possibilities of the change in grazing management in promoting the improvement of hill country' pastures, both in production and in composition, in the control and suppression of weeds, and the better and easier management of a hill country ewe flock, were also discussed. It is now proposed to briefly review the new grazing management as applied to this same farm over the past eleven years and give also the experience and results of a few only. of the many younger hill country farmers wha have adopted the same or similar methods of grazing management. These latter without exception have been influenced and assisted by the methods and results of the .Manawatu farmer; which have been brought to them through the extension service of the Department of Agriculture.