@conference {41268,
	title = {Nutrition and lameness in pasture-fed dairy cattle},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	volume = {61},
	year = {2001},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {128-134},
	publisher = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	organization = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	address = {Christchurch},
	abstract = {This review examines the potential for nutritional factors to contribute to the high incidence of foot lameness in New Zealand pasture-fed dairy cattle. Spring and autumn temperate pastures are highly digestible, contain high concentrations of rumen degradable protein and the effectiveness of neutral detergent fibre (NDF) may be too low to support optimum rumen function. Risk of laminitis and lameness increases with chronic ruminal acidosis and there is evidence for sub-optimal rumen pH in New Zealand cows. Inadequate uptake of trace elements and minerals may compromise hoof health, and there is evidence for lameness associated with the ingestion of high concentrations of anti-nutritional compounds. The clinical examination of lameness in pasture-fed cows must incorporate an investigation of the nutritional status of the cow in addition to environmental, management and animal factors. },
	issn = {1176-5283},
	author = {Westwood CT and Lean IJ}
}
@conference {40833,
	title = {Improving the efficiency of pasture-based dairy production},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	volume = {56},
	year = {1996},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {270-275},
	publisher = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	organization = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	abstract = {New Zealand dairy farmers have not achieved the increases in milk  production that parallel those of other countries and this has led to a re- evaluation of the opportunities to use feed inputs to complement pasture  diets for dairy production. An improved understanding of the chemical  composition of pastures, a re-examination of pasture growth dynamics, and  recent experimental evidence and farmer experience suggests that there is  potential to increase milk production from pasture through strategic inputs  of feeds to increase dry matter intake and improve the nutrient balance of the  cow},
	issn = {1176-5283},
	author = {Lean IJ and Parker WJ and Kellaway RC}
}
