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Effects of severe cattle treading on soil physical properties and pasture productivity
… cattle treading can result in compaction and pugging, of which the latter was the focus of this thesis. Pugging is one of the severest forms of treading damage to soil, and occurs when soil is grazed while near saturation, resulting in plastic and liquid soil deformation. The research …
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The effect of winter grazing and a nitrification inhibitor on nitrous oxide emissions and denitrification in a stony soil
Intensive grazing of forage crops by dairy cows is common practice during the winter months in the Canterbury region of New Zealand. Such intensive grazing on wet soil increases the risk of denitrification and the production of the powerful greenhouse gas, nitrous oxide (N₂O). However, at the …