The potential of plantain to decrease NO3-N leaching while maintaining, or increasing, milk production is being evaluated in a dairy systems experiment at Massey University’s Dairy Farm No 4.
Navarrete S., Rodriguez M.J., Kemp P.D., Hedley M.J., Horne D.J., and Hanly J.A. 2018. The potential of plantain based pastures to reduced nitrogen losses from dairy systems.
In: Farm environmental planning – Science, policy and practice. (Eds L. D. Currie and C. L.Christensen). http://flrc.massey.ac.nz/publications.html
Occasional Report No. 31. Fertilizer and Lime Research Centre, Massey University,
Palmerston North, New Zealand. 7 pages.