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Rodrigo Morales, Julian Parga, Ignacio Subiabre, Carolina E. Realini
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The aims of the present study were to compare the quality of grain-fed and pasture-fed beef and to assess the effects of two feeding periods on grain for finishing steers. A group of 75 steers were fed one of 5 finishing diets (n = 15 per diet): pasture ...
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Worasit Sangjan, Lynne A. Carpenter-Boggs, Tipton D. Hudson and Sindhuja Sankaran
Pasture management approaches can determine the productivity, sustainability, and ecological balance of livestock production. Sensing techniques potentially provide methods to assess the performance of different grazing practices that are more labor and ...
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Julio Cesar Pascale Palhares, Danielle Leal Matarim, Rafael Vieira de Sousa and Luciane Silva Martello
The aim of the study is to discern benchmarks for the indicators L water cow-1 day-1 and L water kg milk-1 day-1 per type of production system and season. A total of 876 commercial dairy farms underwent comprehensive water consumption monitoring from Jan...
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Sebastián Meier, Pedro M. de Souza Campos, Arturo Morales, Rafael López-Olivari, Fernando Ortega-Klose, Humberto Aponte, Paula Cartes, Naser Khan, Gabrijel Ondrasek, Pamela Cea, Rubén Palma-Millanao and Alex Seguel
The relationship between phosphorus (P) availability and water restriction was explored in this study, focusing on its impact on phosphorus use efficiency (PUE) and water use efficiency (WUE) in various bromegrass (Bromus spp.) genotypes. Under controlle...
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Giuseppe Di Miceli, Marialetizia Ponte, Lucia Dinolfo, Giuseppe Maniaci, Marianna Pipi, Riccardo Gannuscio, Simona Prestigiacomo, Adriana Bonanno and Antonino Di Grigoli
In Sicilian forage systems, the introduction of native self-seeding annual legumes can be beneficial in low-input farming. Intercropping would be a valuable strategy for implementing pasture resources in Sicilian forage systems during late spring. The ai...
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Marcia Pereira Quinby, Renata La Guardia Nave, Virginia Sykes, Gary Bates, Carl Sams and Otávio Goulart de Almeida
The use of living mulch (LM) in corn (Zea mays L.) production must be evaluated under different N fertilization levels. The objective of this study was to determine the optimum amount of N fertilization in white clover (Trifolium repens L. (WC)) LM in co...
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William Luiz de Souza, Eliéder Prates Romanzini, Lutti Maneck Delevatti, Rhaony Gonçalves Leite, Priscila Arrigucci Bernardes, Abmael da Silva Cardoso, Ricardo Andrade Reis and Euclides Braga Malheiros
Understanding economic scenarios is crucial in all production chains. Tropical pastures are Brazil?s primary food source for beef cattle production, and current pasture management is not ideal due to land degradation. An economic evaluation assists farme...
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Cristiana Maduro Dias, Helder Nunes and Alfredo Borba
Nutrition has a very significant impact on animal performance. Given the limited agricultural area of the Azores, the optimization of forage quality, quantity, and availability is key for the local livestock industry?s ability to respond to the challenge...
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Patrick Bezerra Fernandes, Lucas Ferreira Gonçalves, Flavio Lopes Claudio, Janayna Almeida Souza, Guido Calgaro Júnior, Estenio Moreira Alves and Tiago Do Prado Paim
This study aimed to assess the impact of intercropping pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan cv. Super N) with maize (Zea mays cv. AG 5055) and Paiaguás palisadegrass (Urochloa brizantha cv. BRS Paiaguás) on grain yield, silage chemical composition, and post-harvest...
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Cecilia Loza, Hannah Davis, Carsten Malisch, Freidhelm Taube, Ralf Loges, Amelia Magistrali and Gillian Butler
The sustainability of dairying has been questioned, yet cattle exploit non-food resources (especially forages) and provide key nutrients for consumers? health. This study, using different forage types, considered milk?s nutritional quality, focusing on f...
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Piotr Golinski, Patrycja Sobolewska, Barbara Stefanska and Barbara Golinska
Maximizing annual pasture consumption without negatively impacting individual cow performance is of great importance in grass-based dairy and beef systems due to pasture being the most cost-effective nutrient source. However, the disadvantages of convent...
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César Augusto Terán-Chaves, Alberto García-Prats and Sonia Mercedes Polo-Murcia
Crop models that can accurately estimate yield and final biomass have been used for major herbaceous crops and to a lesser extent in forage systems. The AquaCrop version 7.0 contains new modules that have been introduced to simulate the growth and produc...
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Palo Francis Loke, Elmarie Kotzé and Christiaan Cornelius Du Preez
In recent years, pasture production changed from conventional tilled single pastures to minimum tilled mixed pastures in the Tsitsikamma region, South Africa. However, storage of soil organic matter (SOM) under minimum tilled mixed pastures is not yet qu...
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Sarmini Maheswaran, Lydia M. Cranston, James P. Millner, David J. Horne, James A. Hanly, Paul R. Kenyon and Peter D. Kemp
This article reviews the literature on nitrate leaching under sheep grazing systems and focuses on identifying future research needs. Urinary nitrogen (N) is an important source of the nitrate leached from pastoral agriculture. Urinary N excretion can be...
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Lwandile Nduku, Ahmed Mukalazi Kalumba, Cilence Munghemezulu, Zinhle Mashaba-Munghemezulu, George Johannes Chirima, Gbenga Abayomi Afuye and Emmanuel Tolulope Busayo
An Earth observation system (EOS) is essential in monitoring and improving our understanding of how natural and managed agricultural landscapes change over time or respond to climate change and overgrazing. Such changes can be quantified using a pasture ...
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Higo J. Dalmagro, Michael J. Lathuillière, Fernando da S. Sallo, Maurel F. Guerreiro, Osvaldo B. Pinto, Jr., Paulo H.Z. de Arruda, Eduardo G. Couto and Mark S. Johnson
Forest to pasture land use change following deforestation in Southern Amazonia can result in changes to stream water quality. However, some pasture streams have riparian forest buffers, while others are dammed for farm ponds. Stream corridor management c...
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Perry Cornelissen, Mathieu Decuyper, Karlè Sýkora, Jan Bokdam, Frank Berendse
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In many countries worldwide, measures have been taken in floodplains for flood prevention and nature rehabilitation. In the Netherlands, floodplains are lowered by excavating to enlarge the discharge capacity and to create opportunities for development o...
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Theomar Neves, Gilberto Fisch and Siegfried Raasch
Using a high resolution model of Large Eddies Simulation (LES), named PALM from PArallel LES Model, a set of simulations were performed to understand how turbulence and convection behave in a pasture and forest sites in Amazonia during the dry and rainy ...
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Lucian Simionesei, Tiago B. Ramos, Ana R. Oliveira, Marjan Jongen, Hanaa Darouich, Kirsten Weber, Vânia Proença, Tiago Domingos and Ramiro Neves
The southern Iberian Peninsula is characterized by evergreen oak woodlands (locally known as montado), which constitute an important savanna-type agro-silvo-pastoral ecosystem. This ecosystem is facing a progressive decline for several reasons, with the ...
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João Serrano, Shakib Shahidian and José Marques da Silva
Montado is an agro-forestry system occupying a large surface in countries of the Mediterranean region. In this system, the natural dryland pasture is the principal source for animal feed in extensive grazing. The climatic seasonality associated with the ...
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