Renato Serena Fontaneli

Efeito de pastagens de inverno e de verão em características físicas de solo sob plantio direto

Soil physical characteristics were evaluated, after seven years (1995 to 2001), on a typical Dystrophic Red Latosol located in Coxilha, State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Six systems integrating crop production with livestock and a subtropical forest were evaluated. Both winter and summer crops were seeded under no-tillage. Cropping systems and soil of different sampling depths were compared using the contrast procedure. In the I and II sistems and in the forest, the soil density and the resistance to penetration increased in the top layer (0-0,05m) concerning the deeper layer (0,10-0,15m). In the II system, total porosity and microporosity decreased in the surface. In the subtropical forest, the some was observed in relation to total porosity and microporosity. The forest showed decrease on soil density and resistance to penetration, compared to most crop systems studied, from 0-0,05m layer to 0,100,15m layer. Soil degradation in the systems could not be considered severe.

Lucratividade e risco de sistemas de producão de grãos com pastagens, sob sistema plantio direto

The objective of this five-year study was to assess the performance of five production systems: system I (wheat/soybean, white oat/soybean, and common vetch/corn); system II (wheat/soybean, white oat/soybean, and oat + common vetch pasture/corn); system III [perennial cool season pasture (tall fescue + white clover + red clover + birdsfoot trefoil)]; and system IV [perennial warm season pasture (bahiagrass + black oat + ryegrass + white clover + red clover + birdsfoot trefoil)]; and system V (alfalfa as hay crop). The plot under systems III, IV, and V returned to system I after the summer of 1996. The treatments were allocated in a complete randomized block design, with four replications. Four types of analysis were applied to the net return of production systems: net return, mean-variance, distribution of accumulated probability, and stochastic dominance. When net return and mean-variance analysis were used no significant differences were observed in the systems studied. The system IV was the best production system to be offered as the better to the farmers for profit and lower risk standpoints by the stochastic dominance analysis.

Conversão e balanço energético de sistemas de produção com integração lavoura-pecuária, sob plantio direto

Resumen pt: A integracao lavoura com pecuaria (ILP) pode proporcionar vantagens ao agricultor, como a maior diversificacao de producao, o menor consumo de energia e ...