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Surplus Cereal Crops For Sheep Feed, H E. Fels
Surplus Cereal Crops For Sheep Feed, H E. Fels
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
SINCE the introduction of wheat quotas many farmers have considered feeding unsaleable grain to sheep.
The three alternative methods of feeding this grain to sheep are
• as standing crops
• as grain supplements, fed in the paddock
• as grain plus hay, in a feedlot.
Crop Rationing : A Useful Drought Feeding Technique, H E. Fels
Crop Rationing : A Useful Drought Feeding Technique, H E. Fels
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
A TRIAL carried out during the 1969 drought demonstrated that rationing standing crop is a practical method of feeding it to sheep when feed is scarce.
Rationing will be mainly a drought feeding technique for that part of the crop which will definitely be used as sheep feed. Crop that may or may not be needed for sheep would normally be harvested and the grain kept as a contingency allowance.