Author(s): BONFIM, L. N.; ALMEIDA, E. M. de; ALMEIDA, R. G. de; MIYAGI, E. S.; FERNANDES, P. B.; BUNGENSTAB, D. J.

Summary: The objective of this study was to verify the variations of the structural characteristics and the mass of forage of piatã grass in different sampling points in a luminosity gradient of a silvipatoril system with density of 357 ha-1 trees. The experiment was carried out at Fazenda Boa Aguada, located in the municipality of Ribas do Rio Pardo-MS. The evaluations were carried out in the period from 07/07/2017 to 01/01/2017. The experimental design was a randomized block design. The treatments consisted of five equidistant sample points (A, B, C, D and E), in a transect perpendicular to two rows of trees, with points A and E close to the rows of trees. The dry mass of leaves (kg ha-1 of DM), dry mass of leaves (kg ha-1 of DM), dry mass of leaves dry mass of dead material (kg ha-1 of MS), leaf:stem ratio and green material ratio:dead. The grass of piatã did not present variations in the structural characteristics in different points of sampling within a silvipatoril system in the first year of evaluation.

Publication year: 2019

Types of publication: Paper in annals and proceedings

Unit: Embrapa Beef Cattle

Keywords: Capim, Capim-piatã, Forragem, Sistema silvipastoril