Sustainable use of rangelands of the Mendoza plain (Argentina) por Guevara, Juan Carlos, Estevez, Oscar Roberto

“…For its evaluation, annual forage production was estimated from the dependable annual rain (f0.8) and the rain-use efficiency factor (kg DM ha-1 year-1 mm-1). The yearlong proper use factor of available forage was 30%, while the herbaceous and woody accessible layers to cattle were 80% and 50%, respectively. …”
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Cacti (Opuntia sps.) as forage in Argentina dry lands por Grünwaldt, Josefina María, Guevara, Juan Carlos, Grünwaldt, Eduardo Guillermo, Martínez Carretero, Eduardo

“…The response to fertilization at the highest application rate was near 4-fold increase over the biomass of the zero fertilization treatment, 3.2 to 12.7 kg DM plant-1. Of this cross, clone 42 produced a dry matter (DM) biomass of 40 t DM ha-1 in 4 years with a total of 625 mm rainfall which is the greatest DM production recorded to date for such a low rainfall. …”
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