Partial replacement of nitrogen fertilization with legumes in tropical pasture overseeded with temperate species for the production of steers
| Autor: | Ronaldo Rubens Biesek, R. D. Mafioletti, Luis Fernando Glasenapp de Menezes, Olmar Antônio Denardin Costa, Wagner Paris, Adriano Moreira Umezaki, Gean Rodrigo Schmitz |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
0106 biological sciences
chemistry.chemical_element Forage 01 natural sciences Pasture Animal science Genetics medicine Temperate climate Arachis pintoi geography geography.geographical_feature_category biology Intercropping 04 agricultural and veterinary sciences biology.organism_classification Nitrogen chemistry 040103 agronomy & agriculture 0401 agriculture forestry and fisheries Animal Science and Zoology medicine.symptom Agronomy and Crop Science Weight gain Panicum 010606 plant biology & botany |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of Agricultural Science. 157:628-635 |
| ISSN: | 1469-5146 0021-8596 |
| Popis: | Using legumes in forage mixes can help decrease the use of nitrogen fertilizers and possibly increase the nutritive value of pasture. The aim of the current study was to determine animal production and behavioural and ingestion parameters by evaluating the production and nutritive value of Aruana grass (Panicum maximum‘Aruana’) intercropped with forage peanut (Arachis pintoi‘Amarillo’) or fertilized with nitrogen. The treatments were N200 (200 kg N/ha per season – summer and winter), 100N + PE (100 kg N/ha per season plus pasture mixture with forage peanut) and N100 (100 kg N/ha per season). The presence of forage peanut in the pasture did not replace nitrogen fertilization as the pasture fertilized with 200 kg of nitrogen had a greater leaf/stem ratio (0.66v.0.54), stocking rate (2600v.2290 kg live weight/ha), average daily gain (0.880v.0.700 kg/day) and live weight gain (LWG) (652v.468 kg/ha) during summer. During winter, no effect of increased nitrogen fertilization on pasture and animal production was observed. In the total study period (summer + winter), a greater LWG (897v.741 kg/ha) occurred when a higher quantity of nitrogen (N200) was placed in the pasture compared to the insertion of forage peanuts in the system. |
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