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Pigs and poplars - A smart combination for environmental protection, animal welfare and meat quality

Why keep pigs together with poplars?

Free-range systems aim to support animal welfare and are common in organic pork production. However, they do represent an environmental risk due to the depositing of manure. Maximum stocking rates are prescribed assuming that nutrients released with manure will be spread uniformly in the field and may be absorbed by cover crops roots. In practice, there are several problems with these assumptions: pigs often decide to use one specific part of the paddock to defecate; sandy-soil fixes a small amount of nutrients; and herbaceous cover crops are more active during spring summer and less so in other seasons (Tagliapietra et al. 2007).

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Dehesa of Casablanca, Oliva de Plasencia, Cáceres, Spain

The former Sylva-Saltus-Ager land use system of the Romans, by which the forest, the pasture and the crop field were established in separate areas, have been integrated today into the so-called Dehesa land use system of southwestern Spain.

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29-11-2014

Agroforestry Field Day in France

Organized within the framework of the following agro-ecological agroforestry project: “L'agroforesterie au service du projet agro-écologique sur les territoires”.

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Red Tractor Farm

Silvoarable agroforestry under cork oak (Quercus suber)

Montado + cattle

Knepp Re-Wilding Project

Trees planted on grasslands and between fields in the “Juchowo Farm”

3rd EURAF conference, Montpellier, France, May 2016

Holm oak, pasture + turkey

Mature grazed woodland at Clapham Park

Montado near Montemor-o-Novo

Sheep grazing vineyards (Vitipasture system)

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