Forage availability and botanical composition of Urochloa pastures after intercrop with corn for ensilage and oversowing of yellow oat / Disponibilidade de forragem e composição botânica de pastagens de Urochloa após o consórcio com milho colhido para ensilagem e sobressemeadura de aveia-amarela

ABSTRACT

In the integrated crop-livestock system, the pasture establishment can be performed with intercrop of grains crops and tropical forages. This study was conducted during two growing seasons in Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil, evaluating the effect of two cutting heights of corn for ensilage in intercrop with palisade grass cv. Marandu (Urochloa brizantha cv. Marandu), palisade grass cv. Piatã (Urochloa brizantha cv. BRS Piatã) and sole-corn crop with regrowth of signal grass (Urochloa decumbens Stapf cv. Basilisk) and oversowing of yellow oat on the forage availability and botanical composition of pasture. The soil of experimental area is Typic Haplorthox. The experimental design was a randomized block, in split-plot, arranged in factorial scheme with four replications. Treatments consisted in the plots of three cropping systems (sole-corn crop with signal grass regrowth; corn and palisade grass cv. Marandu intercropped; corn and palisade grass cv. Piatã intercropped); two cutting heights of corn for ensilage (0.20 and 0.45 m); two growing seasons (2010/2011 and 2011/2012 crop years); and in the subplots, the absence or oversowing of yellow oat (Avena bysantina cv. São Carlos). The sowing of simple corn hybrid (2B587 HX) was spaced at 0.45 m. The seeds of grasses were mixing with fertilizer and deposited at depth of 0.08 m. The amount of fertilizers followed the recommendations to s

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