Increase in Milk Yield from Cows through Improvement of Forage Production Using the N2-Fixing Legume Leucaena leucocephala in a Silvopastoral System

• Published in: Animals (Basel) Vol. 10; no. 4; p. 734
• Main Authors: Sarabia-Salgado, Lucero, Solorio-Sánchez, Francisco, Ramírez-Avilés, Luis, Rodrigues Alves, Bruno José, Ku-Vera, Juan, Aguilar-Pérez, Carlos, Urquiaga, Segundo, Boddey, Robert Michael
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 23.04.2020; MDPI
• Subjects: 15N; Climate change; Cow's milk; Dairy cattle; dry season; Fertilizers; Grasses; Greenhouse gases; Intervals; Legumes; Leguminous plants; Leucaena leucocephala; livestock-system; Milk; Milk production; Monoculture; N2-fixation; Nitrogen; Nitrogen fixation; Nitrogenation; Pastures; Proteins; Quality; Yield; Tanzania

The objective was to evaluate milk production, N2-fixation and N transfer, forage yield and composition (under two cutting intervals) in a silvopastoral system (SPS) with Leucaena leucocephala-Megathyrsus maximus and M. maximus-monoculture (MMM) with crossbred cows in a completely randomized design....