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Studies on the cutting management of grass-clover swards:V. The effect of changes in the closeness of cutting at different times in the season on the yield and quality of herbage from a perennial rygrass-white clover sward

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

D. Reid
D. Reid
Affiliation:
The Hannah Dairy Research Institute, Ayr
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1. The effects of changing the closeness of cutting at different times in the season on the yields and quality of herbage were studied for 3 years on a perennial ryegrass-white clover sward.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 68 , Issue 2 , April 1967 , pp. 249 - 254
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1967

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