Not Much Choice
At very high stocking rates, fouling of pastures was not a very important factor, said Mr A. G. Campbell, of the Ruakura agricultural research centre.
Replying to a question put to him at the conference of the New Zealand Grassland Association at Lincoln this week, he said that with high utilisation the animal was not left with much choice. y
When Mr M. G. Bollard, a member of the staff of Lincoln College, had visited a dairy at Ruakura where 1| cows were being carried to the acre, he had remarked that it was the first time he had seen cows kicking dung patches aside to get at the feed.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32303, 22 May 1970, Page 6
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