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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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Wakelyns Agroforestry - a diverse organic silvoarable system in the UK

The general layout of the farm (Google Earth UK postcode IP21 5SD) is a series of 2 ha alley-cropping systems, with all production hedges aligned north-south on each side of 12m wide cropping areas. There are two coppice systems (hazel, willow), two mixed hardwood systems (ash, hornbeam, Italian alder, oak, small-leaved lime, sycamore, wild cherry, with or without apple) and two mixed fruit and nut systems. The organic crop rotation (cereals-ley-potatoes/squash-ley-cereals) runs as a single cycle around the whole farm.

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Online EURAF GA, 9 November 2020
EURAF Policy conference, 16-18 November 2020
EURAF Conference, Nuoro 17-19 May 2021

Xeromero valonia oak forest/silvopastoral system (West Greece)

Typical landscape of Montado with Holm oak (Quercus rotundifolia)

Authochtonous goat breed (Serpentina) grazing under Holm oak (Quercus rotundifolia)

Agroforestry with chicken

Celtic Pigs in Silvopastoral Systems

Sheep in Apple Orchards Loughgall

Goats and Fraxinus, Portugal

2nd EURAF Conference, 4-6 June 2014, Cottbus, Germany

Wakelyns Agroforestry, Suffolk, UK

Wild asparagus in traditional olive orchard at CRA OLI Spoleto, Italy

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