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Please see below a self-expalnatory message from Professor Sjoerd Duiker from Pennsylvania State University regarding a couple of haymaking videos showing the integration of grass leys into CA -- zero-grazing dairy for smallholders 

Amir Kassam
Moderator

Plant Production and Protection Division
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla 
00153 Rome 
Italy 
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URL: www.fao.org/ag/ca

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From: Sjoerd Willem Duiker <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 12:52 PM
Subject: Integration of grass leys into CA -- zero-grazing dairy for smallholders
To: Amir Kassam <[log in to unmask]>


Hi Amir:

How is it going? I wonder if I ever sent you a link to these haymaking videos. I just did a training in Uganda that was well received. The director of NAADS wants to place a haybaler in every district for demonstration purposes. We hope we can expand this technology to increase dairy production. We have not explored much the integration of grass leys into CA but I think there is great potential. The soil improvement achieved with a few years of grass leads to a well-established yield increase as has been shown many times. After many tries perhaps this can now be more widely adopted as zero-grazing dairy increases in importance. 

Many greetings, Sjoerd


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1scGHhJAas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7G1Atq2N5U

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Sjoerd W. Duiker, PhD, CCA
Associate Professor of Soil Management and Applied Soil Physics
Penn State Cooperative Extension, Department of Plant Science
The Pennsylvania State University
408 ASI Building
University Park, PA 16802
USA
Tel 814-8637637
Cell 814-4042605
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