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  • Review
  • Open Access
29 Citations
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19 Pages

Information on the physiological ecology of grass-dominant pastures has made a substantial contribution to the development of practices that optimise the amount of feed harvested by grazing animals in temperate livestock systems. However, the contrib...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Forage Plant Ecophysiology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,941 Views
13 Pages

3 June 2021

Accumulating herbage mass to facilitate the extension of the grazing season in autumn is commonly practised. The objective of the current study was to investigate the effect of accumulating varying target herbage masses (THM) in autumn and imposing d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Grazing Effects on the Nutritive Value in Grassland Ecosystems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,368 Views
18 Pages

Effects of Protein Supplementation Strategy and Genotype on Milk Production and Nitrogen Utilisation Efficiency in Late-Lactation, Spring-Calving Grazing Dairy Cows

  • M. J. Doran,
  • Finbar J. Mulligan,
  • Mary B. Lynch,
  • Alan G. Fahey and ,
  • Maria Markiewicz-Keszycka,
  • Gaurav Rajauria and
  • Karina M. Pierce
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

6 February 2023

The objectives of this study were to evaluate the effects of (1) protein supplementation strategy, (2) cow genotype and (3) an interaction between protein supplementation strategy and cow genotype on milk production and nitrogen (N) utilisation effic...

(This article belongs to the Section Animal Nutrition)
  • Review
  • Open Access
30 Citations
11,737 Views
13 Pages

Prosopis Species—An Invasive Species and a Potential Source of Browse for Livestock in Semi-Arid Areas of South Africa

  • Khuliso Emmanuel Ravhuhali,
  • Humbelani Silas Mudau,
  • Bethwell Moyo,
  • Onke Hawu and
  • Ntokozo Happy Msiza

1 July 2021

Globally, there have been differing views on whether the proliferation of invasive species will be of benefit as a livestock feed source or it will have detrimental effects on the ecosystem. The infestation of invasive plants such as Prosopis species...