Abstract
Four systems of grazing management of dairy cows were compared for 2 yr. on a uniform mixture of alfalfa, ladino clover, and smooth bromegrass. Cows on the 3-paddock rotational system maintained milk production as well as or better than cows on the 6-paddock, strip, and zero grazing methods of management. Milk production per acre also was as high for the 3-paddock system as for the other methods of management. Larger quantities of excess forage were harvested from the zero grazing system than from the other systems, but it is questionable if the additional forage would offset the decrease in milk production and the increase in harvesting costs.
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Claims 5
Claim · model-written summary
The 3-paddock rotational system maintained milk production as well as or better than the 6-paddock, strip and zero grazing systems.
Verbatim
e1“Cows on the 3-paddock rotational system maintained milk production as well as or better than cows on the 6-paddock, strip, and zero grazing methods of management”
e2“a uniform mixture of alfalfa, ladino clover, and smooth bromegrass”
Claim · model-written summary
Milk production per acre was as high for the 3-paddock system as for the other grazing methods.
Verbatim
e2“a uniform mixture of alfalfa, ladino clover, and smooth bromegrass”
e3“Milk production per acre also was as high for the 3-paddock system as for the other methods of management”
Claim · model-written summary
More excess forage was harvested from the zero grazing system than from the other systems.
Verbatim
e2“a uniform mixture of alfalfa, ladino clover, and smooth bromegrass”
e4“Larger quantities of excess forage were harvested from the zero grazing system than from the other systems”
Claim · model-written summary
The zero grazing system was associated with a decrease in milk production, which the authors question would be offset by the extra forage.
- Taxon
- alfalfa, ladino clover, and smooth bromegrasse2
- Treatment
- zero grazing systeme5
- Outcome
- milk productione5
- Direction
- decreasee5
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e2“a uniform mixture of alfalfa, ladino clover, and smooth bromegrass”
e5“from the zero grazing system than from the other systems, but it is questionable if the additional forage would offset the decrease in milk production and the increase in harvesting costs”
Claim · model-written summary
The zero grazing system was associated with an increase in harvesting costs.
- Taxon
- alfalfa, ladino clover, and smooth bromegrasse2
- Treatment
- zero grazing systeme5
- Outcome
- harvesting costse5
- Direction
- increasee5
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e2“a uniform mixture of alfalfa, ladino clover, and smooth bromegrass”
e5“from the zero grazing system than from the other systems, but it is questionable if the additional forage would offset the decrease in milk production and the increase in harvesting costs”