“…The species presents itself spontaneously and, due to its tillering potential, forage accumulation (RESTLE et al, 2002;SARTOR et al, 2011;COSTA et al, 2011) and good adaptation to the soil and climate conditions of the southern region (BERGOLI et al, 2019) has been used as forage in pastoral systems (SOARES et al, 2020). Alexandergrass allows the adequate conversion into animal product, enabling the mating of beef heifers from 15 months of age (COSTA et al, 2011;ELOY et al, 2014, SALVADOR et al, 2014, average daily gain above 0.6 kg animal -1 day -1 in beef heifers (COSTA et al, 2011;SALVADOR et al, 2014;NEGRINI et al, 2018) and stocking rate of 1.600 to 2.400 kg ha -1 of body weight (RESTLE et al, 2002;NEGRINI et al, 2018).…”