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Noun(1) important European leguminous forage plant with trifoliate leaves and blue-violet flowers grown widely as a pasture and hay crop

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(1) Living on an irrigation property on the banks of the Murray River, Ray's childhood was spent on the farm helping with flood irrigation, fencing, harvesting lucerne , shearing and crutching.(2) The slugs also preferred the leaves of lucerne , white clover and lupins, to the wheat plants.(3) Our observations may better correspond to those of Baumont et al. who reported greater intake of lucerne than mixed grass hay by sheep.(4) Some green manures, legumes such as lucerne and field beans, also have the ability to take nitrogen from the air and fix it into nodules in their roots.(5) Dams were one solution, both to slake the thirst of livestock and to feed patches of green lucerne for ostriches.(6) There are about 800 water licences to extract Lachlan water, mostly belonging to family farms growing lucerne , wheat, hay and in recent years maize.(7) They are looking currently for high protein hay, and that would be lucerne , vetch and clover hay and those stocks are dwindling.(8) Conversion of common land to enclosures made possible new practices: creating water meadows and growing new crops such as sainfoin and lucerne to augment supplies of animal winter fodder.(9) It would be extremely useful if pasture legumes like lucerne and sub clover could be modified to utilise some of this large reservoir of currently unavailable phosphorus.(10) We put in irrigation and grew lucerne on the second farm to feed the sheep on the main farm.(11) Only in Flanders and a few contiguous districts was grain rotated with soil-restoring fodder crops, such as clover, lucerne , and sainfoin, and fallow thus eliminated.(12) Ergot is a fungus that grows on lucerne or barley.(13) Bails of lucern , donated by farmers in the Maclear and Ugie areas, were due to be stockpiled for distribution later.