The lucerne productive and nutritional potential make it the most used forage legume worldwide. This wide use leads genetic improvement programs to increasingly select main requirements for a given edaphoclimatic condition. However, in Brazil, research on of has been limited over years, which hindered production this species domination other legumes animal production, as estilosantes pigeon pea...

These experiments were conducted to determine metabolizable energy and amino acid digestibilities of soybean meal, sunflower meal and canola meal in broiler chickens by using titanium oxide as indigestible marker in intact or caecectomized cockerels. Ileal and total tract digestibility of amino acids were measured using broiler chickens, moreover, digestibility were also determined in the intac...

The main objective of this study was to compare the effect supplementing beef cattle with Desmanthus virgatus cv. JCU2, D. bicornutus JCU4, leptophyllus JCU7 and lucerne on in vivo methane (CH4) emissions measured by open-circuit respiration chambers (OC) or GreenFeed emission monitoring (GEM) system. Experiment 1 employed OC utilized sixteen yearling Brangus steers fed a basal diet Rhodes gras...

A range of options exist to improve pasture in the South Island hill and high country. Pasture yield cost seed, lime fertiliser from 55 trial sites were used calculate partial gross margins (GM) for a improvements on different slopes aspects. On drillable land, average rainfall <500 mm/yr, pastures should be based subterranean clover or perennial lupins. Lucerne can where root growth is not ...