Pasture improvement needs and options for New Zealand sheep and beef farms

摘要

In recent years in New Zealand, sheep and beef farming has been outcompeted for prime land. This means that the government and industry targets to increase sheep and beef production have to be achieved on farms with significant constraints on pastureproduction. They arc increasingly restricted to hilly and other locations with variable climates and soils, and landscape constraints on farming practices. Thus there are limits on the ability to improve pasture production - whether by pasture renewal or through means like grazing management, fertiliser use, or weed and pest control.