Pasture productivity in New Zealand 1990–2020: trends, expectations, and key factors

DF Chapman, AD Mackay, JR Caradus… - New Zealand Journal …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Pasture productivity gains are critical for maintaining global competitiveness of New
Zealand's $38 billion pa animal product export industries. This review reveals that gains in …

Nexus on animal proteins and the climate change: The plant-based proteins are part of the solution?

MC Deprá, RR Dias, RB Sartori, CR de Menezes… - Food and Bioproducts …, 2022 - Elsevier
The study aim was to assess the environmental impacts and costs of the entire production
chain of animal and plant-based proteins, including the normalization and weighting steps …

Are observed rates of productivity compared to model predictions indicating negative climate impacts in perennial plants?

A Mackay, K Hutchinson, J Moore, M Dodd, Y Lin… - 2024 - agresearch.figshare.com
Understanding the apparent discrepancy between observed and modelled primary
production is explored in this paper using long-term pasture and radiata pine (Pinus radiata) …

Greener Pastures: Priorities for a low-footprint, high-value food producing future

D Chapman, D Stevens, W King, G Kerr, M Dodd… - 2022 - agresearch.figshare.com
The key challenges and opportunities facing the pasture resource underpinning New
Zealand's pastoral industries outlined in this paper are drawn from the knowledge, analysis …

Feed profile analysis of oil palm‐integrated beef cattle farming systems by metabolic energy budgeting and implications for beef production and pastoral system …

J Gobilik, H Baco, MA Kabul, S Dollah… - Grassland …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background Oil palm is a tropical crop with worldwide plantings approaching 20 million ha
and large areas in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. The plantations are readily managed …

Long-term measurement and modelling of net herbage accumulation in grazed pastures do not align with predictions under climate change

A Mackay, M Dodd, K Hutchinson… - Journal of New …, 2022 - nzgajournal.org.nz
A long-term phosphorus (P) fertiliser and sheep grazing experiment at the AgResearch
Research Station at Ballantrae (1975-2022) provides a unique resource to examine long …

Discrepancies between observed and predicted climate-driven net herbage accumulation

A Mackay, M Dodd, K Hutchinson, R Vibart, F Bilotto - 2024 - agresearch.figshare.com
The decline in net herbage accumulation (NHA) on the high phosphorus (P) fertilizer farmlet
(HF) of a long-term P fertilizer and associated sheep grazing experiment in the last 25 years …

[PDF][PDF] GREENER PASTURES

D Chapman¹, D Stevens, W King, G Kerr, M Dodd… - academia.edu
Purpose The key challenges and opportunities facing the pasture1 resource underpinning
New Zealand's pastoral industries outlined in this paper are drawn from the knowledge …

[CITATION][C] Our world is changing

C Matthew - Grassland Research, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
When I was born in 1951, earth's atmospheric CO2 concentration was around 310mgkg− 1
(ie, parts per million), with an annual rate of increase averaging some 0.8 mg kg− 1 per year …