@conference {40827,
	title = {Dairy cow performance on limpograss (Hemarthria altissima)},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	volume = {56},
	year = {1996},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {245-250},
	publisher = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	organization = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	abstract = {Limpograss is a perennial subtropical grass which has the potential to  produce a bulk of standing feed (34 t DM/ha/yr) for consumption by cattle  during summer. To assess the value of limpograss for lactating dairy cows,  two experiments were conducted comparing limpograss and mixed  temperate pasture diets. In both experiments a four day adjustment period  was allowed before milksolids yield was assessed on three of the following  ten days. Forage samples were taken for nutritional value assessment. During March 1994, two groups of six Friesian cows on once a day milking  late in lactation were pen fed diets of freshly harvested limpograss  (Hemarthria altissima) or temperate pasture at equal intakes of 13.1 },
	issn = {1176-5283},
	author = {Woods PW and Couchman JN and Clark DA}
}
@conference {40727,
	title = {Adapting cattle from pasture to brassica diets},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	volume = {55},
	year = {1995},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {251-254},
	publisher = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	organization = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	abstract = {Strategies for adapting cattle from pasture to brassica diets were  compared. Groups of 20 Friesian weaner bulls were offered three diets at a  fixed daily allowance of 12\% of liveweight as drymatter on offer, for a six  week period during February and March 1994. Animals continuously  grazing pasture and a Wairoa brassica crop were compared to a group  receiving half their allowance as pasture and half as Wairoa brassica, in  separate night and day breaks. Unfasted animal liveweights were measured  each week for the duration of the trial. Utilisation and botanical  compositions were estimated from quadrat harvests to ground level before  and after grazing.   Liveweight differences among treatments at the start (overall mean 178.9 kg)  and at the finish of the trial (overall mean 207.4kg) were non statistically  significant (P>0.09), although growth paths differed between treatments.   Both groups receiving brassica initially lost weight, the effect being most  pronounced after the first week when growth rates were -0.28 kgLW/day in  brassica, 0.36 kgLW/day in pasture, and -0.77 kgLW/day in the mixed diet  (P<0.05). During the final week of the trial growth rates were 1.12  kgLW/day, 1.86 kgLW/day and 1.44 kgLW/day for brassica, pasture and  mixed diets respectively (P<0.05). Overall average growth rates did not  differ significantly (P>0.10).   Large areas of crop will be required to fully realise the benefits of short term  rapid growth rates.  },
	issn = {1176-5283},
	author = {Woods PW and Couchman JN and Barlow HA}
}
