Caracterização das propriedades de gado de corte do oeste e sudoeste do Paraná

Abstract

The largest commercial cattle herd in the world is found in Brazil, a country that is also the largest exporter and second in the ranking of world beef production, behind only the United States. Paraná ranks eleventh in the national ranking for beef production, with a herd of around 6.3 million heads, in a productive area of 5 million hectares, with a total of 56,000 rural properties, producing around 349,000 tons of meat. Good management is what differentiates the property for the success of livestock, which requires high levels of professionalism, ranging from the acquisition of inputs, management and animal nutrition, to the diagnosis of production results, avoiding damage and thus achieving the defined objectives. In this way, the objective was to apply a procedure referring to the information of the property, to characterize the herd and handling in general, such as health care, reproduction, nutrition and also to analyze the technological level of the properties. So that, as already described in proven methodologies, a survey of how the situations of the farms are, what are the goals to reach the expected result, about the planning of how to fulfill the objectives and the implementation of forms of control to follow the progress how it was determined. Where the manager is the one who determines the success or failure of the production, he is responsible for the elaboration of strategic plans and for determining the propitious improvements. Taking into account that 45.8% of the properties in the west and southwest of Paraná have from 0 to 100 hectares, and in this the Nellore has great predominance, as it appears in 79.2% of the properties, followed by crossbred animals with 45.8 %, both with dominance in the rearing system with weaning age of seven months in 63.6% of the cases. The most used finishing system is extensive with about 55.6% and in 83.3% of these properties there is the rotational grazing system, in which brachiaria has predominance. It concludes that beef cattle properties in the West and Southwest regions of Paraná have been developing and using some livestock technologies, both have properties that work with all stages of production, creation, rearing, fattening and complete cycle, in areas of small size.