Pasture irrigation in the Mackenzie Basin 3. Hay mixtures

Abstract

Two trials on moderately deep, border-dyked, yellow-grey earth soils (Simons and Stream lands) in the Mackenzie Country compared legume-grass mixtures under two fertiliser levels, for hay production. After a year's establishment, these mixtures were sampled for three successive years. Swards were usually legume dominant throughout. The legumes of the highest yielding mixtures were red clover in initial years (,Grasslands Pawera' =