Check out tips to boost pasture forage and prevent degradation when the rains return

With the return of the rains, the pastures enter the crucial phase of regrowth, requiring rigorous and immediate management to avoid losses that will manifest in the next dry season. In an interview with Giro do Boi, agricultural engineer and consultant Wagner Pires warns that the cattle rancher cannot give in to the "thirst for the trough" and must respect the carrying capacity and physiology of the grasses. Ignoring proper management at this time is building a trail of degradation that will be exacted in the future. Pires reinforces that, historically, Brazilian cattle farming has accumulated degradation by removing cattle without returning nutrients and management to the pasture. However, the scenario can be reversed: if well managed, Brazilian pastures can be a powerful "carbon sink," contributing immensely to mitigating greenhouse effects. The specialist urges that the cattle rancher be "vocal" in showing the world that pasture-based cattle farming is an environmentally and ...