IMPROVING THE MANAGEMENT OF SHEEP MEAT PRODUCTION

Abstract

The constant assurance of the market with sheep meat requires the implementation in farms of managerial measures through which to use at optimal parameters the vegetal resources, without major impact on the environmental factors by intensifying the production. Good practices for grazing sheep on pasture for meat production should contribute to reducing the degree of pollution of water, soil and air quality, using the most effective methods of controlling the consumption of plant mass, through new types of grazing, intensively managed, by rotational control for the efficient management of plant resources or by using alternative fodder to balance feed rations. Sustainable practices of pasture management can reduce the effects of overgrazing, efficiently using alternative feeds to supplement rations, using highly adaptable sheep hybrids, good feed conversion rates, which increase growth and produce smaller quantities of manure. Sustainable management of resources in the areas near the pasture has economic effects on the areas, by reducing the costs of restoring environmental factors, maintaining specific floristic biodiversity and avoiding the penetration of invasive species with major effects on the value of vegetative mass.