Resumen
To have a profitable cattle creation, should be especially careful with the quality of pasture. The forage most widely used in Brazil is the Brachiaria spp. occupying 50% of the area devoted to livestock. It adapts well to poor soils as the Brazilian savannah and also fertile soils formed where there basaltic spills. The savannah presents six dry months and thus to a considerable reduction of forage due to the long period of drought. To evaluate the Brachiaria in savannah occupation potential during the dry season, one sampling was carried out in five properties with each of the locals with ten repetitions. It was necessary to develop a mold in a 0,5 m2 (1,0 m high x 0,5 m large) - rectangle shape. This mold was released at random and so contact the forage material was collected and stored paper bag for drying and weighing. The best averages of dry matter production are the samples R1, R2 and R3 areas containing only grazing throughout the year due to its management be appropriate to forage development conditions. But the treatments are the crop-livestock integration is not always the most productive in dry matter in the first year, but becomes sustainable due to the consortium grain production. However a good substantial content of dry matter observed in corn-brachiaria consortium areas in the off season results in the availability of straws for livestock, thus keeping the herd in a good nutritional status and adding profits to ranchers.