The main goal of the project is the conception of a new silo with improved air flow to dry newly-harvested corn cobs. Smallholders generally use silos that create strong resistance to room air flow, causing reduced grain quality. Studies indicate that the Venturi effect in drying silos could solve the issue of low air flow in such silos. The incorporation of the Venturi effect will be performed through a conic metal wall structure that will receive the wind on a more open wall. The wind will lea

Status: Completed     Start date: Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2016

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

Sugarcane is one of the most economical alternatives for off-season roughage feeding, which, whenever corrected, can become a feeding solution for animals with average production, even with the managerial difficulties of daily harvesting, regrowth handling, need for extra labor or specialized machinery, need to complete harvest within the same cycle, in addition to the risk of fire in the crop fields, all of which can be corrected. A correction alternative is sugarcane ensiling and nutritional e

Status: Completed     Start date: Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2008