Rendimento de forrageiras anuais de inverno em diferentes épocas de semeadura

Abstract

The winter season is the most critic period of the year at the south of Brazil in terms of forage allowance, due to the climatic conditions. In the other hand, at this period of the year, it is possible to use well adopted species and get high forage yield. Among the manipulated factors that define the length of the forage lack, the sowing period is important, specially when the animal production is done in an integrated croplivestock system. Due to it, the aim of study was to evaluate forage species like white oat, (Avena sativa L.) cv. IPR 126 black oat (Avena strigosa Schreb) cv. IAPAR 61, common black oat (Avena sp.), ryegrass (Lolium miltiflorum Lam) and wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cv. Tarumã in different sowing periods (April 4 th, April 24 th, May 14th and June 3rd). The experiment was carried out at the Parana Federal Technologic University, campus of Dois Vizinhos in a randomized blocks with four replications. There was a significant interactions between forage specie and the sowed period to almost all of the variable studied, showing that the best arrangement among sowing date and species should be analyzed. Although the interaction, was notice in general that the IPR 126 and IAPAR 61 oats showed a higher production, higher number of cuts and period of use. In relation to the sowing periods, was noticed better results when the forage species were sowed by the and of April, however with o lower decline in the nutritive value with the sowing delay. The Taruma wheat showed a different behave from the other species once its nutritive value increased as the sowing dates passed.