摘要
with the objective of identifying the main problems of cattle nutrition in the production systems of santar谷m, par芍, brazil, ranchers in different regions of the municipality and who owned 10% of the municipality%26apos;s animals were interviewed at random. the ranchers raised mostly beef cattle; only 9.5% had dairy cattle. the infrastructure conditions are inappropriate; only 23.8% of the ranches have adequate facilities for beef cattle management and 61.9% of the ranchers do not consider weight control. weed invasion was considered the main problem of the pastures (61.9%). the most common forage was brachiaria brizantha, used exclusively in 42.9% of the ranches. 76.2% of the ranchers used a complete mineral supplement, with macro and micro elements, while 19% used only salt (nacl) with micro elements; the other 5% did not use mineral supplements at all. the phosphorus concentration in the mineral supplement at 76.9% of the ranches was less than the minimum level suggested for beef cattle and only 19% of the ranches had appropriate mineral feeders.