[PDF] Top 20 Research on Integrated Crop-Livestock Systems in Brazil

... - Integrated crop-livestock systems (ICLS) are designed to exploit synergisms and emergent properties resulting from interactions between different soil-plant-animal-atmosphere compartments ... See full document

... agricultural systems based on monoculture and short, continuous crop rotations have increased agricultural yields in Brazil, particularly in recent ...resulted in ... See full document

... of integrated agricultural production systems has ability to improve physical, chemical, and biological soil conditions, increase cycling and efficiency of use of nutrients, reduce production costs, ... See full document

... no-till systems in Cerrado environments is the low quantity and rapid decomposition of straw left on the soil surface between fall and spring, due to water deficit and high ...temperatures. In ... See full document

... In Brazil, studies of the use of Azospirillum bacteria and N fertilization in corn crops in ICL are few or still without ...bacteria in corn crops presents limitations, especially due ... See full document

... earthworms in Soybean+CLI systems, was also observed by several other authors in soils in the state of Santa Catarina (BARETTA et ...animals in the Soybean+CLI system compared to ... See full document

... especially in regions where the maintenance of cover crops in no- tillage systems is ...based on the hypothesis that a well-managed crop- livestock integration system improves ... See full document

... with livestock production (Freitas & Landers, ...the integrated crop-livestock system (ICLS) was boosted in Brazil (Carvalho et ...and crop exploitation (Moraes et ... See full document

... increase in the tree height leads to a larger shaded area between the tree rows, but this effect seems to be less important than competition for water to explain the soybean yield losses caused by the eucalyptus ... See full document

... based on several attributes related to soil microbiology and not only to soil chemical ...presented in the research, it can be observed that the increase of diversity due to the use of legumes ... See full document

... interaction crop year x forage on GY and TSFY (Table ...TSFY in the different cropping systems in the first three years of establishment (Table ...4). In relation to GY, corn ... See full document

... where livestock needs to be integrated with crops, that is, where traditional grain cropping is adopted without livestock exploration (Anghinoni et ...grazing on summer crop performance ... See full document

... data on soil physical properties for CLF or CL systems indicate favorable soil physical ...treatments. In general, drastic adverse effects on soil physical properties by animal trampling ... See full document

... dried in a forced-ventilation oven at 55 °C, for at least 72 hours, and ground in a Willey mill (Alpax, Diadema, SP, Brazil) through a 1 mm mesh ...National Research Council (NRC, ... See full document

... ruziziensis on the production of straw, and the establishment and grain yield of a soybean crop, under an integrated crop-livestock system, on a typic dystrophic Red Latosol at ... See full document

... bank in soil. We hypothesize that under no-till systems and integration crop-livestock, the presence of straw from previous crops, as well as the integrated set of weed management ... See full document

... intercropping systems between corn and tropical forages, at different cutting heights, on silage production, light interception, land use efficiency, intercropping competition factors, and pasture ... See full document

... by the grain mass of two 3-m rows, near each sampling point, correcting to 13% moisture and extrapolating to 1-ha area. The one hundred grain weight (HGW) and the severity of grain spots (SS) were determined as well. The ... See full document

... stabilized in the soil, organic matter minimizes limitations of Brazilian Oxisols, such as low cation exchange capacity, low nutrient availability, toxicity due to high aluminum content, and phosphate ...present ... See full document

... ICLF systems improve the soil physical quality (Assis et ...2015). In general, a grazing intensity governs the impact on the soil physical properties in integrated no-tillage ... See full document