Green Fodder in Brazil

Contacto
Lic. en Química Carlos R. Arano
Buenos Aires 660 - Bº Sta. Brígida -1748 Gral. Rodríguez - Pcia de Bs. Aires - Argentina
Tel. + 54 (0) 237 484 1480

If you have herbivore animals to feed with grass
and your land is small,
it doesn't produce enough fodder,
it is located in an arid zone,
or it has seasonal problems with rainfall and climatic conditions.

If you have more profitable plans for your piece of land,
such as:
to diversify and to take advantage of your production,
to profit by the seasonal crop prices,
and/or other reasons.

Green Fodder production system allows you to get
your own green fodder in a small space
in only 7 days,
cheaply and with mathematical regularity,
following a very simple and reliable hydroponics technique

We are talking about.....
the very quick growing
in only
7 to 8 days
of
very high nutritive value
green fodder,
tender and tasty
for farming animals.

The base of this fodder are the following: wheat, barley, rye, oats, rice, sorghum* or corn grains.
The pictures on the right show, day by day, the evolution
in the growing procedure of green fodder with corn.
The final product is a fodder composed by the mass of roots blanket, the 7 days small plants,
and the residuals of seeds after germination took place.

(*) Be careful!: some sorghum seeds produces plants that,
at certain growing stages, could be toxic to animals.
Before to use this grain, ask your local adviser.

Following the detailed instructions on the technique published in this e-book, any person can produce green fodder cheaply and without any difficulties.

The reader will find in it all the necessary information for a good development and handling of this technology without having to buy ready to use highly expensive equipment.
At the same time he will be able to know in detail the final product characteristics and results on feeding different animals with the fodder.

The pictures used here were taken at Mrs. María Thereza Caldeira's Fazenda Mateberi located at Três Lagoas, Matto Grosso do Sul, Brazil. An experimental project was conducted there under the supervision of the book's author. It was necessary to build a small chamber using wood, polyethylene film, polystyrene sheets as insolated material (right), lit inside with white cool fluorescent light tubes.
Since corn seeds are easily available in the zone and high temperatures are always expected there, it was advisable to work with that cereal. All pictures on the page were shot there. María Thereza was making corn green fodder.