Grazing management: setting the table, designing the menu and influencing the diner

P Gregorini, JJ Villalba, P Chilibroste… - Animal Production …, 2017 - CSIRO Publishing
Pastoral livestock-production systems are under increasing environmental, social and
consumer pressures to reduce environmental impacts and to enhance biodiversity and …

Animal design through functional dietary diversity for future productive landscapes

MR Beck, P Gregorini - Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Pastoral livestock production systems are facing considerable societal pressure to reduce
environmental impact, enhance animal welfare, and promote product integrity, while …

Grazing dairy cows with low milk urea nitrogen breeding values excrete less urinary urea nitrogen

CJ Marshall, MR Beck, K Garrett, GK Barrell… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
There is an increasing pressure on temperate pastoral dairy production systems to reduce
environmental impacts, coming from the inefficient use of N by cows in the form of excessive …

Substituting a pasture-based diet with plantain (Plantago lanceolata) reduces nitrogen excreted in urine from dairy cows in late lactation.

EMK Minnée, CMT Leach, DE Dalley - Livestock science, 2020 - Elsevier
Recent research has demonstrated that grazing cows fed diets including plantain (Plantago
lanceolata) express reduced urinary nitrogen (UN) concentration relative to cows fed …

Nitrogen balance of dairy cows divergent for milk urea nitrogen breeding values consuming either plantain or perennial ryegrass

CJ Marshall, MR Beck, K Garrett, GK Barrell… - Animals, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary We studied the nitrogen excretion patterns of cows selected for divergent
nitrogen excretion consuming either ryegrass or plantain. Both the use of a plantain diet as …

A comparison of temperate pasture species mixtures selected to increase dairy cow production and reduce urinary nitrogen excretion

M Dodd, D Dalley, C Wims, D Elliott… - New Zealand Journal of …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Two short-term dairy cow grazing experiments in mid-lactation (late spring) and late-
lactation (late summer), were conducted in the Waikato region of New Zealand, to determine …

Application of grazing land models in ecosystem management: Current status and next frontiers

L Ma, JD Derner, RD Harmel, J Tatarko, AD Moore… - Advances in …, 2019 - Elsevier
Grazing land models can assess the provisioning and trade-offs among ecosystem services
attributable to grazing management strategies. We reviewed 12 grazing land models used …

Coptisine: A natural plant inhibitor of ruminal bacterial urease screened by molecular docking

Y He, X Zhang, M Li, N Zheng, S Zhao… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Inhibition of ruminal bacterial urease activity could slow down the decomposition of urea to
ammonia, which would lead to a decrease in urea synthesis in the liver and urea-N emission …

Complexity, crash and collapse of chaos: Clues for designing sustainable systems, with focus on grassland-based systems

JB Schiere, P Gregorini - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Terms such as system crash, collapse of chaos and complexity can help one understand
change, also in biological, socio-economic and technical systems. These terms need …

Reconciling annual nitrous oxide emissions of an intensively grazed dairy pasture determined by eddy covariance and emission factors

AR Wecking, AM Wall, LL Liáng, SB Lindsey… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2020 - Elsevier
Estimates of regional and national nitrous oxide (N 2 O) emissions rely on emission factors
(EFs) commonly derived from measurements using static chambers. These measurements …