CALIBRATION OF THE RISING PLATE METER FOR MIXED PASTURES OF RYEGRASS (Lolium perenne L.) AND KIKUYO (Cenchrus clandestinus) [PDF]
Chilean journal of agricultural & animal sciences, 2020 Accumulated herbage mass (AHM) availability is a determining criterion for efficient pasture management and use. The Rising Plate Meter (RPM) is a tool for estimating this parameter; to do so, equations need to be developed for the pasture conditions in which it will be used. The objective of this study was to develop a calibration equation for the RPM
Javier Cárdenas +2 more
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Comparison of Weight Estimate and Rising-Plate Meter Methods to Measure Herbage Mass of a Mountain Meadow [PDF]
Journal of Range Management, 1989 A rising plate meter (RPM) and ocular estimation of herbage fresh weight (OCES) were compared as double sampling methods to measure herbage dry weight (DWT) in a mountain meadow grazed by cattle (0, 2.5,3.2, and 6.9 AUM/ha) and deer. On 8 dates, 5 to 10 plots were clipped and 50 to 100 plots were estimated in 2 or 4 pastures, each of which had 6 ...
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Accounting for minimum data required to train a machine learning model to accurately monitor Australian dairy pastures using remote sensing [PDF]
Scientific ReportsPrecision in grazing management is highly dependent on accurate pasture monitoring. Typically, this is often overlooked because existing approaches are labour-intensive, need calibration, and are commonly perceived as inaccurate.
Martin Correa-Luna +8 more
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Spatial and Temporal Pasture Biomass Estimation Integrating Electronic Plate Meter, Planet CubeSats and Sentinel-2 Satellite Data [PDF]
Remote Sensing, 2020 There is a substantial opportunity to lift feed utilization and profitability on pasture-based dairy systems through both increased pasture monitoring accuracy and frequency.
Juan Gargiulo +5 more
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Exploring the potential of rising plate meter techniques to analyse ecosystem services from multi-species grasslands [PDF]
Crop & Pasture Science, 2022 Context Continuous grazing in extensive grassland creates grazed and ungrazed patches, which are important for ecosystem service delivery. One possibility for optimising ecosystem services is to target a defined compressed sward height, which can be measured with rising plate meters supplied with internal global
Kilian Obermeyer +3 more
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PSIV-A-2 Comparison of rising plate meter and total collection methods for forage mass determination of tall fescue [PDF]
J Anim SciAbstract The objective was to compare estimates of forage mass (FM) determined with a rising plate meter (RPM) with forage mass determined by total collection method. Estimates of FM impact management decisions and give the producer a greater understanding of forage availability for their herd.
Fernando Delgado +3 more
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Studying spatial and temporal dynamics of sward structure at low stocking densities: the use of an extended rising‐plate‐meter method [PDF]
Grass and Forage Science, 2003 AbstractAn extended rising‐plate‐meter method was used to study the spatial and temporal variability of the sward structure of extensively managed pastures over a grazing season. Two treatments of a long‐term grazing experiment with heifers were investigated: extensive continuous grazing (EG) with a target sward height of 10 cm and intensive continuous
Correll, O., Isselstein, J., Pavlu, V.
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Calibration of rising plate meter in prairie kikuyo grass (Pennisetum Clandestinum Hochst.Ex Chiov) in the high colombian tropics [PDF]
, 2019 La región andina colombiana, en el departamento de Boyacá a 2560 msnm en el cordón lechero colombiano, las explotaciones ganaderas se caracterizan por tener la especie forrajera perenne predominante conocida como Kikuyo (Pennisetum clandestinum Hochst.ex Chiov), gramínea de crecimiento estolonífero.
Moreno, Diego +3 more
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Estimation of grass biomass consumed by rabbits housed in movable paddocks
World Rabbit Science, 2023 Biomass allowance is a key feature in pasture-based rabbit production systems. It conditions not only the stock density (rabbits/m²) and/or the number of grazing days, it also influences the grazing behaviour of animals.
Anne-Sophie Plagnet +3 more
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