Abstract
1. Experiments to assess the effects of grazing management on the persistence of a lucerne-cocksfoot ley are described and the results discussed. 2. The work confirms the general opinion, based on other experiments in which lucerne was defoliated by cutting, that frequent defoliation causes a reduction in the persistence of the lucerne. 3. Defoliation at 8-weekly intervals maintained a satisfactory balance between the sown species in a lucerne-cocksfoot sward, irrespective of whether defoliation was by cutting or by grazing or by combination of the two. 4. Grazing at 4-weekly or 2-weekly intervals led to serious reductions in the proportion of lucerne in the sward. 5. The provision of a rest period, either early or late in the growing season, had little effect on the amount of lucerne present after 2 years on plots subjected to grazing at 4-weekly or 2-weekly intervals.
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Claims 5
Claim · model-written summary
Frequent defoliation reduced lucerne persistence.
- Taxon
- lucerne
Medicago sativae0 - Treatment
- frequent defoliatione0
- Outcome
- persistence of the lucernee0
- Direction
- reductione0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“frequent defoliation causes a reduction in the persistence of the lucerne”
Claim · model-written summary
Defoliation every eight weeks maintained a satisfactory balance between lucerne and cocksfoot regardless of cutting or grazing.
- Taxon
- lucerneMedicago sativae0
- Treatment
- Defoliation at 8-weekly intervalse0
- Outcome
- satisfactory balance between the sown speciese0
Not reportedComparatorDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Defoliation at 8-weekly intervals maintained a satisfactory balance between the sown species in a lucerne-cocksfoot sward, irrespective of whether defoliation was by cutting or by grazing or by combination of the two”
Claim · model-written summary
Grazing every four weeks seriously reduced the lucerne proportion.
- Taxon
- lucerneMedicago sativae0
- Treatment
- Grazing at 4-weeklye0
- Outcome
- proportion of lucerne in the swarde0
- Direction
- reductionse0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Grazing at 4-weekly or 2-weekly intervals led to serious reductions in the proportion of lucerne in the sward”
Claim · model-written summary
Grazing every two weeks seriously reduced the lucerne proportion.
- Taxon
- lucerneMedicago sativae0
- Treatment
- 2-weekly intervalse0
- Outcome
- proportion of lucerne in the swarde0
- Direction
- reductionse0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Grazing at 4-weekly or 2-weekly intervals led to serious reductions in the proportion of lucerne in the sward”
Claim · model-written summary
A rest period had little effect on lucerne amount after two years under frequent grazing.
- Taxon
- lucerneMedicago sativae0
- Treatment
- rest periode0
- Outcome
- amount of lucerne presente0
- Direction
- little effecte0
- Qualifier
- after 2 yearse0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The provision of a rest period, either early or late in the growing season, had little effect on the amount of lucerne present after 2 years on plots subjected to grazing at 4-weekly or 2-weekly intervals”
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