Abstract
ABSTRACT The effects of winter crop selection, timing of harvest dates for the winter crop and sowing date and hybrid duration for maize crops on total biomass and feed quality for spring‐winter crop sequences were investigated. Two sets of experiments were established in each of Canterbury and Waikato regions of New Zealand in 2009–2010 seasons. Winter cereal crops, specifically oats, were more productive, than legumes and Italian ryegrass. Delaying the sowing of maize resulted in increased biomass production of the whole sequence by harvesting more of the spring production of the intervening winter crop. However, delayed harvest of winter crop resulted in declining energy content. Winter grazing decreased the accumulated dry matter production by between 1.3 and 5.2 tonnes dry matter ha −1 . The overall results confirm the findings of the earlier simulation study, with delayed maize sowing in order to harvest more biomass from the winter crop increasing yield of the whole sequence.
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Claim · model-written summary
Oats produced more than legumes and Italian ryegrass.
- Taxon
- oats
Avena sativae0 - Treatment
- oatse0
- Outcome
- more productivee0
- Direction
- more productivee0
- Comparator
- legumes and Italian ryegrasse0
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Verbatim
e0“Winter cereal crops, specifically oats, were more productive, than legumes and Italian ryegrass”
t0“Maize silage‐winter crop sequences”
Claim · model-written summary
Later maize sowing increased whole-sequence biomass by permitting more winter-crop harvest.
- Treatment
- Delaying the sowing of maizee0
- Outcome
- biomass production of the whole sequencee0
- Direction
- increasede0
Zea maysNot reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“Delaying the sowing of maize resulted in increased biomass production of the whole sequence by harvesting more of the spring production of the intervening winter crop”
Claim · model-written summary
Later winter-crop harvest reduced energy content.
- Taxon
- winter crope0
- Treatment
- delayed harvest of winter crope0
- Outcome
- energy contente0
- Direction
- declininge0
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“delayed harvest of winter crop resulted in declining energy content”
Claim · model-written summary
Winter grazing reduced accumulated dry matter by 1.3 to 5.2 tonnes per hectare.
- Treatment
- Winter grazinge0
- Outcome
- accumulated dry matter productione0
- Direction
- decreasede0
- Value
- between 1.3 and 5.2 tonnes dry matter ha −1e0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Winter grazing decreased the accumulated dry matter production by between 1.3 and 5.2 tonnes dry matter ha −1”
t0“Maize silage‐winter crop sequences”
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