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Modelling livestock carrying capacity in montados

Why use trees on grazed areas?

First impressions are often that the presence of trees in pasture systems will lead to a reduction in pasture production due to the light and water competition. However, other effects on the system dynamics and water availability may be beneficial to nutrient cycling, yield, and pasture productivity.

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Featured Farm of the day

"Rindergilde Geesthacht" and "Family Farm Staggen"

The two featured farms are both based in the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein - Germany’s most sparsely wooded federal state, located between the Baltic and the Northern Sea in Northwestern Germany. In 2017, both farms won an award for their well-maintained ‘Knicks’.

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Typical landscape of Montado with Holm oak (Quercus rotundifolia)

Holm oak, pasture + turkey

3rd EURAF conference, Montpellier, France, May 2016

Seabuckthorn & Buffaloberry-based alley cropping

Silvoarable agroforestry under cork oak (Quercus suber)

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

Olive trees + grazing + traditional stone walls

Ploughing in between 14 year old walnut trees

Montado near Montemor-o-Novo

Whitehall Farm, Cambs, UK, apples and arable

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