Nitrogen levels for winter forage as a strategy for raising dry mass productivity for cattle grazing in the region of Ilha Solteira, SP

• Grant number: 14/10201-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: September 01, 2014
• End date: August 31, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Animal Husbandry - Pastures and Forage Crops
• Principal Investigator: Leandro Coelho de Araujo
• Grantee: Luis Aurelio Sanches
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Engenharia (FEIS). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Ilha Solteira. Ilha Solteira , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The perennial summer grass it is enough to fill nutritional needs of cattle in the Southeast during the spring/summer, but in autumn/ winter these grass have low development even in irrigated conditions, due to the reduction in air temperatures. Thus, the use of annual winter grass as over seeded can be a viable option for intensification of grazing production system in winter. The objective of this project is to evaluate the total production of dry matter and crude protein from two Oat cultivars under different levels of nitrogen fertilization.