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The value of pasture analysis

Authors: Dewes HF
Publication: New Zealand Veterinary Journal, Volume 27, Issue 1-2, pp 19-20, Jan 1979
Publisher: Taylor and Francis

Animal type: Livestock
Subject Terms: Copper, Trace elements, Diet/rations/food, Minerals/elememts, Nutrition/metabolism, Pasture/crop, Poisoning - chemical, Selenium
Article class: Correspondence

Abstract: If you commence in one comer, click the shears, walk five paces click again, skirt the fertility patches, leave any soil behind, and you should have a reliable sample for pasture analysis by the time the diagonal comer is reached. Repeat the procedure over different soil types, recent and old established pasture, and you could have a profile of farm pastures. Analysis of pasture clearly established the levels at which copper and molybdenum, in New Zealand and overseas, gave rise to peat scours and teartness…

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