Economic Results of Forage Species Choice in Crop–Livestock Integrated Systems

Crop–livestock integrated production systems (CLISs) combine cash-crop and forage in succession. There are plenty of options cultivars with differences aspects seeds cost, there is little information on how the choice cultivar can affect results a CLIS. We hypothesized that different have important economic impacts systems. Thus, we evaluated two-year using three species CLIS: (1) Urochloa ruziziensis; (2) Megathyrsus maximus cv. BRS Zuri e; (3) Tamani. The system was during 2018 2019 no-tillage soybean (Glycine max) cultivation from November to March grazing cattle May August. seed costs were, average, USD 25.27 ha−1 for Ruziziensis grass, 39.97 guinea 64.13 Tamani grass. Animal varied 96.4 147.5 kg live weight per hectare year mean yields 3849 4217 hectare, both without between cultivars. However, lowest values animal were obtained highest grass presented net income (NI) 1039.87 an annual return equity (ROE) equal 11.19%, while NI 612.65 ROE 6.47%, demonstrating impact resource CLISs. Therefore, adequate conditions individual farm correspond increase 69.7% income, which highlights importance continuing efforts develop new simultaneous evaluation these scenarios order better recommend genetic resources particular environments.