High Andean dairy farming is characterized by intensive and inefficient management of natural resources. Its operation is based on pastures of low nutritional quality that do not cater to the essential needs of the animals for their growth and production. One way to improve pasture quality is to introduce forest species in silvopastoral arrangements. In the Colombian cold zone, a traditional agroforestry arrangement is Alnus acuminata (Kunth) with the pasture Cenchrus clandestinus (Hochst. ex Chiov.) Morrone, a herbaceous species that covers 80% of the regional forage supply. For this study, the mineral content of C. clandestinus under incidence of A acuminata was evaluated; the research was carried out in the pastures of a silvopastoral arrangement and a monoculture without forest incidence, located in the Obonuco Research Center of Agrosavia. Four treatments and three replicates were e...

High Andean dairy farming is characterized by intensive and inefficient management of natural resources. Its operation is based on pastures of low nutritional quality that do not cater to the essential needs of the animals for their growth and production. One way to improve pasture quality is to introduce forest species in silvopastoral arrangements. In the Colombian cold zone, a traditional agroforestry arrangement is Alnus acuminata (Kunth) with the pasture Cenchrus clandestinus (Hochst. ex Chiov.) Morrone, a herbaceous species that covers 80% of the regional forage supply. For this study, the mineral content of C. clandestinus under incidence of A acuminata was evaluated; the research was carried out in the pastures of a silvopastoral arrangement and a monoculture without forest incidence, located in the Obonuco Research Center of Agrosavia. Four treatments and three replicates were e...