Variabilidade Espacial da Produção de Forragem em Sistema Rotativo e Continuo na Ovinocultura.

Abstract

Brazil stands out from its competitors for presenting pasture as the basis of production. However, as the extensive production regime predominates, Brazilian livestock farming has a great challenge to the degradation of pastures, a factor that negatively impacts the sustainability of the productive system. The use of grazing systems aimed at the adequate growth of the forage plant, the good animal performance and the improvement of the physical, chemical and biological characteristics of the soil is fundamental for the evolution of the Brazilian livestock. In this sense, it is valid to make a theoretical, comparative analysis of the functional characteristics of the two systems of production to the pasture, more employees, the continuous and the rotated. This will allow a gathering of information regarding the particularities of each system. Pasture management is a set of actions aimed at maximum production per unit area, according to the exploration objective. The rotated system has allowed intensification in meat production and increased profitability of the activity. This is often more due to the greater use of technological resources than the isolated effect of adopting the system. The producer, when migrating from the continuous grazing system to the rotational system, implements in his property techniques such as soil correction and fertilization, irrigation, integration of livestock farming, which allow the cultivation of more productive forages and the breeding of animals with better genetic potential. Thus, the rotational stocking method, when done correctly, will be more efficient than the continuous stocking, to promote greater animal production, increase the efficiency of pasture utilization, but, because it is more complex, the implantation of this system requires greater control and dedication on the part of the producer.