The role of cultivated pastures in milk production in South Africa

Abstract

A brief survey of existing methods of milk production by the Republic of South Africa is made, together with an appreciation of the role and importance of established pastures in relation to these. The cost of milk is discussed in relation to two roughage plans: the one being based on ordinarily accepted methods of roughage provision, and the other on roughage produced under intensive methods of grass farming where a high fertilizer regime is employed. High-producing cows are more economic than low-producing cows. So too, is a high-level pasture fertilizing regime, except where cows have a very low inherent production.

Keywords: roughage|dairy farming|cows|fertilisation|farming|grasses|management|costs|milk yields|surveys|milk productions|pastures|cultivated fields|methods