. 2020 Aug 10;10(8):1386. doi: 10.3390/ani10081386

Table 1.

Production system characteristics for the representative farms in the Cerrado and Amazon biomes, Brazil.

Description	Cooperating Cerrado Farm		Cooperating Amazon Farm
Description	2016–2017	2017–2018	2015–2016	2016–2017	2017–2018
Farm characteristics
Production system	Beef stocker	Beef stocker	Beef finish	Beef finish	Beef finish
Pasture type/Crop(s)	Brachiaria brizantha cv. Marandu	Brachiaria brizantha cv. Marandu	Brachiaria spp./ Rice ^a	Brach. spp./ Rice, Soybean ^a	Brach. spp./ Soybean ^a
Area, ha
Grass	930.6	930.6	6147	6747	6747
Crop ^a	-	-	874	1214	1214
Forest	343.35	343.35	16,596	16,596	16,596
Soil characteristics
Soil type(s)	P ^b	P ^b	DRYL; QN ^b	DRYL; QN ^b	DRYL; QN ^b
% sand, silt, clay	65%, 9%, 26%	65%, 9%, 26%	77%, 6%, 17%	77%, 6%, 17%	77%, 6%, 17%
H₂O capacity (mm)	260	260	400	400	400
Livestock
Breed	Nelore (Bos indicus)	Nelore (Bos indicus)	Nelore (Bos indicus)	Nelore (Bos indicus)	Nelore (Bos indicus)
Production cycle	Calves, replacement	Calves, replacement	Full cycle	Full cycle	Full cycle
Diet	Pasture/ Supplem. ^c	Pasture/ Supplem. ^c	Pasture/ Supplem. ^c	Pasture/ Supplem. ^c	Pasture/ Supplem. ^c
Herd, head	1516	2344	15442	11,934	12,170
Stocking rate
Head/ha	1.63	2.52	2.51	1.77	1.80
kg/ha	441.35	696.14	991.84	749.36	704.26
Annual production Arrobas (30 kg/ha)	-	-	8	8.1	8.1
kg/ha	-	-	240	243	243

^a Cooperating farm in Amazon used rice and soybeans as cash crops integrated with pasture areas. ^b Predominant soil for Cerrado cooperating farm is plinthosol (P). Predominant soil for Amazon cooperating farm is dystrophic red-yellow latosol (DRYL); part of the farmland has quartzarenic neosol (QN). ^c Low-grain supplementation soybean and corn meal, and cottonseed with minerals for finishing cattle and/or stockers.