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Abstract:
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Tagasaste appeared to have potential to provide an economic alternative feed in summer. An added bonus was that tagasaste would establish and appeared to grow vigorously on deep sands. Experiments have shown the annual production of edible leaf and stem from adult tagasaste to be 7,500 kg per ha of green material when harvested by hand or 3,400 sheep grazing days per ha when grazed directly by young sheep. In summer the edible fraction of tagasaste was measured as 40 per cent dry matter, 15 per cent crude
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