The production and nutritional composition of annual winter growing grass and legume species as winter pasture

摘要：

Perennial ryegrass, kikuyu and lucerne are the pasture base for milk production in the Southern Cape of South Africa.The dry matter production rate of these pastures differs during spring, summer and autumn but reach a mutual low during winter resulting in feed shortage during winter.The aim of this study was to plant different annual winter growing grass and legume species in pure stands and mixtures at different planting dates in an attempt to increase the dry matter production and quality of fodder produced during winter.

关键词： annual ryegrass oats triticale serradella vetch production and quality

作者: P.R.Botha H.S.Gerber R.Meeske A.S wanepoel

作者单位: Department of Agriculture Western Cape,Institute for Plant Production Department of Agriculture Western Cape,Institute for Plant Production;Institute for Animal Productio

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2008世界草地与草原大会

会议地点: 呼和浩特

会议语种:英文

在线出版日期: 2008-06-29（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）