Voluntary intake of Tanzania grass (Panicum maximum) under rotational grazing by lactating cows

The study was conducted at Nucleo de Pesquisas Zootecnicas Nordeste of the Instituto de Zootecnia, Ribeirao Preto, SP, in a rotational grazing area of Tanzania grass (Panicum maximum), to estimate the dry matter intake by lactanting cows. The estimation of dry matter intake was calculated from the feces production estimated using extrusa Chromium-mordent and the in vitro digestibility of diet. The three treatments were crossbreed cows fed 3 kg.day(-1) of concentrate, crossbred cows without concentrate suplementation and pure Gir cows also without concentrate supplementation. The milk production was 11.98, 6.53 and 5.46 kg per cow per day, the grass intake was 8.26 +/- 5.66, 11.01 +/- 5.37 and 9.55 +/- 2.31 kg of dry matter per day or 2.15%, 2.37% and 2.34% of live weight for the three experimental groups respectively. The milk production was higher (P<0.01) for cows fed with concentrate. No difference was found for dry matter intake.

Efeito da densidade de plantas de Panicum maximum Jacq. sobre o crescimento inicial de Eucalyptus grandis W.Hill ex Maiden

In order to verify the effect of Panicum maximum plant density on the initial growth of Eucalyptus grandis plants, one assay was conducted under semi-controlled conditions of soil fertility and humidity. Dark red Latossol, collected from the arable layer, was used as substrate in 50 liters amianthus cement boxes. One seedling of Eucalyptus was planted in each box. Fifteen days later, seedlings of P. maximum were transplanted on the same box. The treatments consisted of 0, 4, 8, 12, 16 and 20 plants of P. maximum per m 2. The experimental design was the complete randomized design, with six treatments and eight replicates for P. maximum. One hundred and ten and 190 days after transplanting, Eucalyptus plants grown among P. maximum showed an average reduction of 30.80 and 46.55% stem diameter, 25.10 and 22.50 plant high, 40.18 and 31.29% stem dry weight, 61.32 and 54.06% branch dry weight, 53.72 and 51.82% root dry weight, 44.62 and 38.50% leaf dry weight, 22.51 and 23.16 branch number, 20.72 and 19.97% leaf number, and 33.88 and 17.05% leaf area, respectively.

Produção de Brachiaria brizantha e Panicum maximum com milho e adubação nitrogenada

In places characterized with high temperatures and rain occurrence in great intensity in the summer, but with dry winter, the major limitations for the sustainability of no tillage systems are low production of straw during fall-spring period and the fast decomposition during the rain season. To try to solve the problem, intercropped cultures of grains with forage species has presented reliable results; because offer vegetal covering to the next sowing, giving sustainability to the no tillage system. However, being a recent technology, its needed further studies in different areas involved for this system of production. Thus, this study had the objective 1) to evaluate the production of corn grain at different periods of intercropping with Brachiaria brizantha and Panicum maximum in no tillage system, and 2) aimed to evaluate the performance of forage at different periods of intercropping and the responses to nitrogen fertilization after the harvest of the corn, assessing mass productivity and quality. The experiment was carried out at the Lageado experimental farm, School of Agricultural Sciences, Botucatu campus belonged to São Paulo State University (UNESP) in structuralized Red Nitosol (Afisol). The experimental design was randomized blocks with four replications. The treatments were composed for four systems of no tillage involving corn: 1) single corn; 2) corn with Brachiaria brizantha cv. Marandu intercropped in the sowing; 3) corn with Brachiaria brizantha cv. Marandu intercropped with the fertilization of covering; 4) corn with Panicum maximum cv. Mombaça intercropped in the sowing and 5) corn with Panicum maximum cv. Mombaça intercropped with the fertilization of covering. After the harvest of the corn, it was applied, in equivalent quantities of nitrogen, ammonium nitrate in covering in doses of 0, 30, 60 and 120 kg ha-1, determining the forage mass productivity and quality. The simultaneous tillage of corn with P. maximum cv. Mombaça in the sowing compromises the grain productivity. When sowed in intercropping, B. brizantha presents a fiber concentration reduction and greater TDN concentration during the fall-spring period. Regarding benefits of intercropped cultures seeking to use in systems of production like agriculture-pasture integration, the best intercropping to be utilized is corn sown simultaneously with B. brizantha cv. Marandu.

Coletores de amônia, fontes e formas de aplicação de nitrogênio em Panicum maximum CV. Tanzânia submetido a manejo intensivo

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Desempenho e parâmetros fisiológicos de cabras em pastagem de capim-tobiatã (Panicum maximum cv. Tobiatã) suplementadas nas fases pré-parto

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Biodigestão anaeróbia e compostagem com dejetos de bovinos confinados e aplicação do biofertilizante e do composto em área cultivada com Panicum maximum Jacq., cv Tanzânia

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Efeito de diferentes resíduos pós-pastejo de capim tanzânia (Panicum maximum cv Tanzânia Jacq.) pastejado por caprinos sobre a estrutura do pasto

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Resposta de Panicum maximum Jacq. cv. Tanzânia à aplicação de soro ácido de leite

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Degradabilidade in situ e consumo voluntário de capim Tanzânia (Panicum maximu, J. cv. Tanzânia), sob pastejo, por vacas em lactação

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Produção e perdas de forragem em pastagens dos cultivares Tanzânia e Mombaça de Panicum maximum Jacq. adubadas com doses crescentes de NPK

Pós-graduação em Zootecnia - FCAV

Efeitos da irrigação e adubação nitrogenada sobre a produção de matéria seca e qualidade da forragem de cultivares de Panicum maximum Jacq

Pós-graduação em Zootecnia - FEIS

Desempenhos técnicos e econômicos de um sistema de integração lavoura-pecuária com a cultura do milho e adubação nitrogenada de capins dos gêneros Panicum e Brachiaria sob irrigação no cerrado

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Influência da estrutura dos pastos de capim tanzânia (Panicum maximum Jacq.) sobre o comportamento ingestivo de cabras F1 Boer x Saanen

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Queilite angular traumática em eqüinos associada à ingestão de Panicum maximum

Uma condição com aumento da fenda bucal de eqüinos por lesão na comissura labial foi estudada. Este aumento tinha extensão variável e era uni ou bilateral. Na mucosa da bochecha da comissura labial exposta havia pequenas erosões. Durante a mastigação havia perda de pequena quantidade de capim e saliva pela fenda bucal aumentada. Os animais apresentavam bom estado nutricional. O exame histopatológico de tecido retirado da comissura labial revelou epidermite superficial. Nas quatro propriedades onde se verificou o problema, constatou-se que os eqüinos eram mantidos em sistema extensivo de criação em pastagem de Panicum maximum (variedades Tanzânia, Mombaça, Tobiatã e Colonião), com folhas maduras, altas, lignificadas e de bordos cortantes. De acordo com os dados epidemiológicos, com os achados clínicos e histopatológicos, concluí-se que essas lesões foram causadas pela ação cortante das folhas de Panicum maximum, associada à forma de apreensão da pastagem alta e mastigação pelos eqüinos.

Estimativa da área foliar de Panicum maximum usando dimensões lineares do limbo foliar

The objective of this study was to obtain a mathematical equation to estimate the leaf area of Panicum maximum using linear measures of leaf blade. Correlation studies were conducted involving the real leaf area (Sf), the main vein leaf length (C), and the maximum leaf width (L). The linear and geometric equations related to C provided good leaf area estimates. For practical reasons, the use of an equation involving only the C*L product is suggested. Thus, an estimate of P. maximum leaf area can be obtained by the equation Sf = 0.6058 (C*L), with the coefficient of determination R = 0.8586.