Table 4.

Means, standard deviation, and effect of concentrate supplementation ($C$), tropical pasture type ($P$), and interaction ($C$ $\times$ $P$) related to commercial cuts of the left half of the carcass of Suffolk lambs.

	Concentre supplementation			Tropical pasture		$p$ value
	0 %	1.5 %	3 %	Aruana	Marandu	$C$	$P$	$C$ $\times$ $P$
Leg weight, kg	1.91 $\pm$ 0.46${}^{\mathrm{b}}$	2.69 $\pm$ 0.39${}^{\mathrm{a}}$	2.56 $\pm$ 0.41${}^{\mathrm{a}}$	2.50 $\pm$ 0.42	2.27 $\pm$ 0.59	0.02	0.18	0.28
Palette weight, kg	1.12 $\pm$ 0.30${}^{\mathrm{b}}$	1.58 $\pm$ 0.24${}^{\mathrm{a}}$	1.46 $\pm$ 0.27${}^{\mathrm{a}}$	1.45 $\pm$ 0.26	1.32 $\pm$ 0.36	0.03	0.22	0.36
Rib weight, kg	1.28 $\pm$ 0.32${}^{\mathrm{b}}$	2.03 $\pm$ 0.33${}^{\mathrm{a}}$	1.81 $\pm$ 0.28${}^{\mathrm{a}}$	1.78 $\pm$ 0.37	1.63 $\pm$ 0.46	0.01	0.17	0.48
Loin weight, kg	0.58 $\pm$ 0.17${}^{\mathrm{b}}$	0.93 $\pm$ 0.16${}^{\mathrm{a}}$	0.84 $\pm$ 0.19${}^{\mathrm{a}}$	0.84 $\pm$ 0.19	0.72 $\pm$ 0.24	0.02	0.11	0.31
Neck weight, kg	0.38 $\pm$ 0.09${}^{\mathrm{b}}$	0.54 $\pm$ 0.09${}^{\mathrm{a}}$	0.52 $\pm$ 0.12${}^{\mathrm{a}}$	0.52 $\pm$ 0.11${}^{\mathrm{A}}$	0.44 $\pm$ 0.12${}^{\mathrm{B}}$	0.02	0.07	0.33
Leg weight, %	36.15 $\pm$ 1.28${}^{\mathrm{a}}$	4.63 $\pm$ 1.04${}^{\mathrm{b}}$	35.61 $\pm$ 1.54${}^{\text{ab}}$	35.25 $\pm$ 1.18	35.68 $\pm$ 1.64	0.12	0.45	0.56
Palette weight, %	21.29 $\pm$ 0.70	20.31 $\pm$ 1.19	20.24 $\pm$ 0.98	20.51 $\pm$ 0.95	20.72 $\pm$ 1.23	0.14	0.63	0.85
Rib weight, %	24.31 $\pm$ 0.96	26.10 $\pm$ 1.96	25.18 $\pm$ 1.42	25.01 $\pm$ 1.48	25.39 $\pm$ 1.89	0.19	0.91	0.48
Loin weight, %	10.90 $\pm$ 0.94	11.95 $\pm$ 0.92	11.65 $\pm$ 1.22	11.86 $\pm$ 1.02	11.14 $\pm$ 1.08	0.16	0.11	0.35
Neck weight, %	7.32 $\pm$ 0.86	6.97 $\pm$ 0.94	7.29 $\pm$ 0.92	7.35 $\pm$ 0.68	7.04 $\pm$ 1.09	0.43	0.74	0.71

Different lower-case letters in the same line indicate significant differences ($p<\mathrm{0.05}$) between concentrate supplementation. Different upper-case letters in the same line indicate significant differences ($p<\mathrm{0.05}$) between tropical pasture.