Grass growth and utilisation on grassland farms across the UK and Ireland are below their
potential, and nutrient management is sub-optimal. Excessive soil phosphorus …

Precision technologies and data have had relatively modest impacts in grass-based
livestock ruminant production systems compared with other agricultural sectors such as …

The global dairy industry needs to reappraise the systems of milk production that are
operated at farm level with specific focus on enhancing technical efficiency and …

PastureBase Ireland (PBI) is a web-based grassland management application incorporating
a dual function of grassland decision support and a centralized national database to collate …

Understanding of farmers' influences relating to the adoption of innovations is imperative for
the Irish dairy sector to improve efficiencies and productivity. There is a particular need for a …

The physiology of the dairy cow while transitioning from pregnancy to lactation is complex,
with multifactorial processes studied extensively for the role they play in manifestation of …

Grazed pastures based on ryegrass species provide most of the feed for dairy cattle in New
Zealand. There are many cultivars of perennial (L olium perenne), annual and Italian (L …

Temperate pasture‐based dairy farming systems with low input of supplementary feed are
vulnerable to changes in climate through alterations in feed supply and nutritive value …

To support the further development of grazing practices for dairy production systems based
on perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.), allometric relationships among leaf‐stage …

Paddock selection is an important component of grazing management and is based on
either an estimate of herbage mass, or the interval since last grazing for each paddock …