Abstract
As part of the search for sustainability in production systems, systems of annual crops intercropped with tropical forage plants have recently been used for silage production. Therefore, in the present study we aimed to evaluate the dry matter yield, fermentative parameters and nutritional value of the silage of sorghum intercropped with Paiaguas palisadegrass in different forage systems and maturity stages in a crop-livestock integration system. The experiment was conducted at the Goiano Federal Institute (Instituto Federal Goiano), Rio Verde Campus, Goiás, Brazil, in a completely randomised design with four replications in a 5 × 3 factorial arrangement with five forage systems (monocropped sorghum, monocropped Paiaguas palisadegrass, sorghum row intercropped with Paiaguas palisadegrass, sorghum inter-row intercropped with Paiaguas palisadegrass and sorghum oversown and intercropped with Paiaguas palisadegrass) and three maturity stages of the sorghum (milky, soft dough and hard dough). The results show that for all sowing methods, the silages of the intercropping systems harvested in the hard-dough stage provide a higher yield per area than did the monocropped sorghum and Paiaguas palisadegrass. The intercropping of sorghum with Paiaguas palisadegrass in crop-livestock integration systems could become an important option for the production of silage because intercropping minimises the inconveniences resulting from the fermentation process of the silage of monocropped grasses and improves the quality of the silage. These findings show this intercropping method to be advantageous strategy for the production of supplemental roughage in addition to contributing to the formation of pasture after the crops have been harvested for ensiling.
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Sorghum intercropping systems harvested at hard-dough stage gave higher silage yield per area than monocropped sorghum and Paiaguas palisadegrass.
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- yield per areae0
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- monocropped sorghum and Paiaguas palisadegrasse0
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t0“Production and quality of the silage of sorghum intercropped with Paiaguas palisadegrass”
e0“the silages of the intercropping systems harvested in the hard-dough stage provide a higher yield per area than did the monocropped sorghum and Paiaguas palisadegrass”
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Sorghum-palisadegrass intercropping improved silage quality compared with monocropped grasses.
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- intercroppinge1
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- quality of the silagee1
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- improvese1
- Comparator
- monocropped grassese1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
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t0“Production and quality of the silage of sorghum intercropped with Paiaguas palisadegrass”
e1“intercropping minimises the inconveniences resulting from the fermentation process of the silage of monocropped grasses and improves the quality of the silage”
Claim · model-written summary
Sorghum intercropping is an advantageous strategy for producing supplemental roughage.
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Production and quality of the silage of sorghum intercropped with Paiaguas palisadegrass”
e2“this intercropping method to be advantageous strategy for the production of supplemental roughage”
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