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Hybrid poplar and oak along drainage ditches - Enhancing the financial and environmental value of farmland

Why plant poplars?

The Padana Plain in Italy is characterised by intensive agriculture. Cereals are the most common crop, and hybrid poplar (Populus x euroamericana) is the most common cultivated tree species for timber production. Intercropping poplar trees with arable crops is now recognized as a modern form of Smart Agriculture, due to the efficient use of site resources (light, nutrients and water) by canopies and root distribution.

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Featured Farm of the day

Herdade do Freixo do Meio (Portugal)

After being confiscated in 1974 during the Carnation Revolution, HFM was returned to the former owners in 1990 and since then tried to bring a new way of managing this heritage guided by the ethics of respect for the people and for the environment.

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Mature grazed woodland at Clapham Park

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Silvopastoral system in Poland

Silvoarable agroforestry under cork oak (Quercus suber)

Collection of reindeer

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

Grazed orchard

Seabuckthorn & Buffaloberry-based alley cropping

Agroforestry with willow used as medicinal fodder

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