LZT5815 - Feed Quality and Forage Conservation for Animals

Credit hours

Instructor
Luiz Gustavo Nussio

Objective
Feed quality and conservation for animals became a key step of integration in between Ruminant
Nutrition and Forage Science and Pastures. In this program conservation is not focused exclusively on
the biochemistry of the process but also to offer a compreenhensive glance of overall integration of
animal production systems, food security, microbiome and volatilome and energy balance from the
conservation strategies addopted for forages, grains and coproducts. Beyond that, forage conservation is
dealt as a tool for bioenergy surplus. Strategies to modify fermentation routes in silages or either
dehydration kinetics in hay processes are analyzed closely.

Content
1. Innovation and research, 2. Quality as a concept, 3. Kinetics of silage fermentation, 4. Silage
microbiology and additives, 5.On-farm forage inventory and measuring silage density. 6. Aerobic
stability in silages, 7. Grain type silages, 8. Take home referata, 9. Silo lining and sealing strategies ,
10- Take home referata 2, 11. Hay and pre-wilted silages, 12. Take home referata 3, 13. Conservation
of coproducts and potential increase in nutritive value, 14.Take home referata 4, 15.Discipline Workshop
(All groups)

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