In Brazil, the milk chain has about 4 million workers, with a herd of 23 million milked cows and national production estimated at 33.5 billion liters. The project results will contribute to addressing the general problem of “low efficiency of milk and beef production systems due to seasonality in forage production or forage gap period”, and the specific problems of the “need for forage cultivars for grazing”. that can minimize the effects of the feeding deficiency caused by the forage gap and pr

Status: In progress     Start date: Thu Jul 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2021

Milk production systems in Brazil are based, for the most part, on the use of tropical grass pastures as the main source of nutrients for animals. Keeping high levels of pasture-based milk production depends on the following factors: supply of forage in quantity and quality, maximum duration of the grazing season, rational use of energy, protein and mineral supplements, and definition of management strategy that aims at productivity by area. Therefore, intensive pasture management results in for

Status: Completed     Start date: Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019