Open AccessPASTURE SEEDS MIXTURES, COMPETITION AND PRODUCTIVITY
Author(s) -
W. Harris
Publication year - 1968
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.1968.30.1245
Subject(s) - pasture , productivity , competition (biology) , agronomy , agroforestry , biology , ecology , economics , economic growth
THE PRINCIPLES involved in making up a pasture seeds mixture are many and complicated, and while considerable attention was paid to these principles in the period between 1910-30 (e.g., Cockayne, 1914, 1917; Levy, 1923, 1936; Stapledon and Davies, 1927, 1928) development of other areas of investigation of sward performance have in recent years tended to overshadow the importance of the species mixture in determining the productivity of a sward.