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Grazing dairy cattle

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Grazing dairy cattle

Dairy cows need high-quality pasture during their milk-production season, from about August until May each year.

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Deric Charlton, Pastures – Pastures for different livestock, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/16441/grazing-dairy-cattle (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Deric Charlton, published 1 March 2009.