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| Leach, Katharine; Richmond, Robert; Waterfield, William. |
| There is interest in increasing soil organic matter (SOM), both to improve plant productivity, and augment carbon sequestration. One practice that may contribute to increasing SOM is a “mob grazing” approach. This involves high stocking density for a short period of time, and often grazing more mature swards, leaving higher cover and longer recovery times between grazings than is typical in the UK. This approach is likely to be best suited to swards that include a wide variety of grass and herb species, giving greater resilience than a purely ryegrass sward. The performance of dairy herds on such swards under this type of management in the UK has not been documented. This paper describes how a participatory approach is used to gather sward and animal... |
| Tipo: Conference paper, poster, etc. |
Palavras-chave: Dairy cattle; Feeding and growth. |
| Ano: 2013 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/24700/1/LEACH%20et%20al%202013%20BGS%20proceedings.pdf |
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| Waterfield, William. |
| This report was presented at the UK Organic Research 2002 Conference. Benchmarking is an important management tool enabling the comparison of actual financial data on a similar basis. Currently there is little data available on the actual costs of farming to organic standards. Limited financial or incomplete management information tends to lead to poor decision taking. The objective of the exercise is to identify the practices, which lead to enhanced financial performance, either low costs of production or high levels of profitability. The identification of these most profitable practices enables informed decisions to be made about the way the farming business needs to change. The main problem areas include the collection of detailed information broken... |
| Tipo: Conference paper, poster, etc. |
Palavras-chave: Knowledge management; Farm economics. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/8426/1/waterfield_benchmarking_financial_dairy.pdf |
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| Leach, Katharine; Palomo, Gonzalo; Waterfield, William; Zaralis, Konstantinos; Padel, Susanne. |
| The paper presents first year results of one participatory case study carried out as part of EU FP7 funded SOLID project (Sustainable Organic and Low Input Dairying) on an organic dairy farm managed with diverse swards and mob grazing in Britain. Mob grazing is a livestock management strategy consisting of high stocking density for a short time to remove forage rapidly due to high grazing pressure and then removing livestock to allow grass recovery. On the farm this is combined with a diverse sward, paying particular consideration to soil fertility. First results indicate that there was more available herbage in front of the cows, especially in the summer months, than could be expected from rotational grazing with shorter rest periods. Differences between... |
| Tipo: Conference paper, poster, etc. |
Palavras-chave: Dairy cattle; Systems research and participatory research. |
| Ano: 2014 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/23553/1/23553%20Leach%20etal-diverse%20swards_final%20V03_MM.pdf |
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