Number of animals that can graze on a set area of land refers to......

Botanical Composition refers to...

Which of the following is not a category of grassland.

Which of the following categories of grassland was never ploughed>

Which of the following categories of grassland needs to be reseeded every few years?

When investigating the botanical composition of a grassland, you randomly place your quadrat throughout the field ten times. You discover clover is present in the quadrat seven times. What is the percentage frequency of clover in this grassland?

When investigating the botanical composition of a grassland, you randomly place your quadrat throughout the field ten times. You discover perennial ryegrass and clover is present in all the quadrats. What type of grassland would this most likely be?

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Arrange the three stages of growth in a grass plant

Grass plant finishes elongation stage when ______________ starts to emerge.

The three most important characteristics of grass

DMD is short for

The amount of feed an animal consumes, excluding its water content refers to

Grass is highly digestible in the vegetative stage which a DMD of approx ______%

By Mid-May, plant enters the reproductive stage and starts producing flowering stems to support the seed head of the grass. What is needed to provide strength in the stem?

Italian ryegrass produces ____% more herbage than perennial ryegrass however is a biennial plants and needs to be reseeded every two years.

One Livestock Unit (LU) is the equivalent of one dairy cow or one suckler cow. One LU requires ______ tonnes of herbage each year.

Calculate how many livestock units are on a farm containing 20 suckler cows, 15 six month old calves, ten 18 month cold cattle and 30 sheep.

Calculate how much herbage would be required annually on a farm containing 20 suckler cows, 15 six month old calves, ten 18 month cold cattle and 30 sheep.

Identify the grazing system

Advantages of Strip Grazing

Which of the following is NOT an advantage of set stocking

Which of the following is the grazing system where the young animals are allowed graze ahead of older animals

Which farming activity is described below?

This is mowing grass to a height of 5–7cm. Topping cuts grass to the correct post grazing height and encourages tillering. It is carried out post-grazing to remove any remaining grass. It can also be used to control weeds.

Maximum amount of Nitrogen fertiliser applied to land cant exceed _______kg/hectare per year.

Which of the following are reasons for reseeding grassland

_________ is the damage caused to wet or waterlogged land where land is cut up by livestock movement on wet soils.

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•Land is ploughed and harrowed and seed is sown with a seed drill or broadcast on the soil.

This describes which reseeding technique?

•A __________ is a tool that is towed behind a tractor and is used to break up the surface of the soil.

•Any clods of soil left on the surface after ploughing are broken up and the surface is levelled.

•Grass seed is sown with another tillage crop.

•When the tillage crop is harvested, grass establishes itself in the field.

This describes which reseeding technique?

What should be applied to the land to remove broadleaf weeds (dock leaves)?

Fermentation of carbohydrates in the grass produces acids which lower the pH of the grass and inhibit all microbial activity refers to _________ production.

•Grass is dehydrated to remove the majority of the water present. In the absence of water microbial activity in inhibited refers to ________ production

Silage should be cut for ensiling just before the ________________ date when DMD is high (75%).

Cutting silage in dry weather as water _____________ the carbohydrate concentration in grass.

Leaving the grass to wilt (dry) for 1-2 days after mowing to reduce water content which will ____________ carbohydrate content.

•Fermentation is carried out by anaerobic bacteria, which converts carbohydrates into acid to preserve the grass.

What does the term anaerobic mean?

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Which of the following is NOT an advantage of round bale silage.