Table 5 Total beef cattle numbers during the confinement phase for each year, along with initial and final live weights, live weight gain per animal, total live weight gain per farm, and the amount of potassium exported in the live weight gained by the animals over the two years of confinement for farm 1 and farm 2.
From: Adoption of circular agriculture increases potassium recovery in tropical farms
Confinement phase | Farm 1 | Farm 2 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Animal | Live weight | Gain/ farm | K exported1 | Number of animals | Live weight | Gain/ farm | K exported1 | |||||
Initial | Final | Gain | Initial | Final | Gain | |||||||
unit | kg/animal | kg | kg/animal | kg | ||||||||
January to December 2020 | ||||||||||||
Growing Phase | 686 | 335 | 415 | 80 | 54,857 | 91 | 148 | 344 | 393 | 48 | 7,148 | 12 |
Fattening Phase | 774 | 410 | 518 | 108 | 83,882 | 140 | 88 | 385 | 509 | 124 | 10,930 | 18 |
Total 2020 | 1,460 | 138,739 | 231 | 236 | 18,078 | 30 | ||||||
January to December 2021 | ||||||||||||
Growing phase (lot 1) | 585 | 320 | 410 | 90 | 52,686 | 88 | 274 | 374 | 422 | 49 | 13,361 | 22 |
Growing phase (lot 2) | 629 | 275 | 352 | 77 | 48,742 | 81 | 218 | 270 | 376 | 106 | 23,159 | 39 |
Fattening Phase (lot 1) | 688 | 410 | 540 | 130 | 89,114 | 148 | 400 | 435 | 553 | 118 | 47,244 | 79 |
Fattening Phase (lot 2) | 342 | 424 | 573 | 150 | 51,130 | 85 | 109 | 415 | 551 | 136 | 14,776 | 24 |
Total 2021 | 2,244 | 241,672 | 402 | 1,001 | 98,539 | 164 | ||||||
Total | 3,704 | 633 | 1,237 | 194 | ||||||||