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Volume 74, Gore 2012

A comparison of the intake of cows grazing swedes and kale and consequent condition score change.
B.R. THOMPSON and D.R. STEVENS

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Anticipating the unexpected – managing pasture pest outbreaks after large-scale land conversion
T.A. JACKSON, R.J. TOWNSEND, J.E. DUNBAR, C.M. FERGUSON, S.D.G. MARSHALL AND S.M. ZYDENBOS

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AR37 endophyte effects on porina and root aphid populations and ryegrass damage in the field
A.J. POPAY, B. COTCHING, A. MOORHEAD and C.M. FERGUSON

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Assessments of N leaching losses from six case study dairy farms using contrasting approaches to cow wintering
J. M. CHRYSTAL, R.M. MONAGHAN D. DALLEY and T. STYLES

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Can herb-clover mixes increase lamb liveweight gains in spring?
S.C.S. SINHADIPATHIGE, P.R. KENYON, P.D. KEMP, S.T. MORRIS and P.C.H. MOREL

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Cleancrop™ Brassica System: The development of herbicide resistant brassica crops for New Zealand farming systems
A. DUMBLETON, S. GOWERS, A. CONNER, M. CHRISTIE, P. KENNY, H. MULCOCK, and B. CHARTERIS

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Economic values for evaluating pasture plant traits
D.F. CHAPMAN, J.R. BRYANT, W.H. McMILLAN and E.N. KHAEMBAH

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Effects of weather variability on sheep and beef farming in northern Southland, New Zealand: A modelling analysis
F.Y. Li, R. Vibart, R.A. Dynes, I. Vogeler and M. Brown

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Establishment of lucerne (Medicago sativa) sown on five dates with four inoculation treatments
K. WIGLEY, D.J. MOOT, Q. KHUMALO and A. MILLS

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Evaluating perennial ryegrass cultivars: improving testing
G.A. KERR, D. F. CHAPMAN, E. R. THOM, C. MATTHEW, A. VAN DER LINDEN, D. B. BAIRD, E. JOHNSTON and J. R. CORKRAN

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Evaluating the Agronomic Effectiveness of Fertiliser Products
D. C. EDMEADES and R. M. McBRIDE

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Farmlet testing of the DairyNZ Conservation Demo
C.G. ROACH, P.C. BEUKES and A.J. ROMERA

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Giant buttercup – modelling the financial benefits of control on a Golden Bay dairy farm
GRAEME BOURDÔT, WARREN KING and GRANT RENNIE

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Has the eco-efficiency of sheep and beef farms changed in the last 20 years?
A.D. MACKAY, A.P. RHODES, I. POWER and M.E. WEDDERBURN

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Integrating high yielding crops into a Taranaki dairying system
K.A. Macdonald, J. Clough, J.M. de Ruiter, C.B. Glassey T. Sears and N. Sears

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Issues related to the management of nutrients on organic dairy farms: Nitrate leaching and maintaining soil nutrient levels
D. J.HORNE, E.F. DIJKSTRA, A. S. PALMER and P. CAREY

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Long term pasture growth patterns for Southland New Zealand: 1978 to 2012
L. C. SMITH

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Modelling the impact of surplus pasture management techniques on production and profit in a pasture-based dairy system
K.T. Wynn, P.C. Beukes and A.J. Romera

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Nitrogen loss mitigation using duration-controlled grazing: Field observations compared to modelled outputs
C.L. CHRISTENSEN, M.J. HEDLEY, J.A. HANLY and D.J. HORNE

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Nutritional evaluation of five species of forage brassica
Nutritional evaluation of five species of forage brassica

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Opportunities to decrease the water quality impact of spring forage crops on dairy farms
S.J. DENNIS, R.W. MCDOWELL, D.R. STEVENS AND D. DALLEY

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Pasture growth and quality on Southland and Otago dairy farms
D. E. DALLEY and T. GEDDES

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Pasture growth and quality on West Coast dairy farms
D. E. DALLEY and G. GARDNER

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Performance of new dairy pastures
A.L.TAYLOR, T.J. FRASER and W.MCG. KING

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Plant population, yield and water use of lucerne sown in autumn at four sowing rates
D.J. MOOT, K.M. POLLOCK and B. LEWIS

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Potential water quality impact and agronomic effectiveness of different phosphorus fertilisers under grazed dairying in Southland
R. W. McDOWELL and L. C. SMITH

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President’s address 2012
JACQUELINE ROWARTH

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Progress towards marker-assisted selection in forages
M.J. Faville, A.G. Griffiths, M.Z.Z. Jahufer and B.A. Barrett

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Reducing nitrous oxide emissions from grazed winter forage crops
T.J. van der Weerden and T.M. Styles

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RPR revisited (1): Research, recommendations, promotion and use in New Zealand
B. F. QUIN and M. ZAMAN

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RPR revisited (2): Long-term farmer experience helps define the role of RPR in grazed pastures
M. ZAMAN and B. F. QUIN

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Seasonal differences in the capacity of perennial ryegrass to respond to gibberellin explained
C.C. BALL, A.J. PARSONS, S. RASMUSSEN, C. SHAW, and J.S. ROWARTH

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Status of clover root weevil and its biocontrol agent in the South Island after six years.
C.M. FERGUSON, M.R. McNEILL, C.B. PHILLIPS, S. HARDWICK, D.M. BARTON and J.M. KEAN

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The changing face of southern New Zealand farming: opportunities of land use change
R.J. COPLAND, D.R. STEVENS

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The effectiveness of the nitrification inhibitor dicyandiamide (DCD) for mitigating nitrogen leaching losses from a winter grazed forage crop on a free draining soil in northern Southland.
L C SMITH, T ORCHISTON, R M MONAGHAN

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The use of a nitrification inhibitor (DCn™) to reduce nitrate leaching under a winter-grazed forage crop in the Central Plateau
M. SHEPHERD, A. STAFFORD and D. SMEATON

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Understanding Plantain (Plantago lanceolata L.) responses to defoliation in Uruguay
W. AYALA, E. BARRIOS, R. BERMÚDEZ, N. SERRÓN

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Understanding the role of spring grazing of lucerne in the Central Otago environment
D.R. STEVENS, B.R. THOMPSON, A. CARRUTHERS, A.J. Wall, M.J. Casey, R. Phiskie, P. Young and D.J. Moot

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Using nitrogen fertiliser to decrease phosphorus loss from high phosphorus soils
R.J. DODD, R.W. McDOWELL and L.M. CONDRON

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Which way forward in the quest for drought tolerance in perennial ryegrass?
C. MATTHEW, A. van der LINDEN, S. HUSSAIN, H.S. EASTON, J.-H.B. HATIER and D .J. HORNE

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Winter management practices to optimise early spring pasture production: a review
A.J. WALL, D.R. STEVENS, B.R. THOMPSON and C.L. GOULTER

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Yield of Italian ryegrass mixed with red clover and balansa clover
T.P. RYAN-SALTER and A.D. BLACK

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