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Why triticale?

Productivity of natural pastures in Iberian dehesas is usually low and very variable (on average 1440 kg dry matter (DM) ha/yr). They also provide low nutritive value forage, containing 4-20% legume fraction, 9-12% crude protein, 44-59% neutral detergent fibre and 28-37% acid detergent fibre.

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Località il Piano, Italy

The orchards are grazed by geese and Comisana dairy sheep, while Alpine goats and Jersey cows are kept out to prevent damage to the fruit trees. All animals rotate through pastures and the forest, grazing on native grasses, forest trees and acorns.

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Darliner Farm

Sweet cherry in combination with vegetables on an organic farm

Bisons in a forest reserve, Poland

Wakelyns Agroforestry, Suffolk, UK

Silvopastoral system in Poland

Oak agro-silvo-pastoral system

Silvoarable agroforestry under cork oak (Quercus suber)

Traditional meadow in Joensuu, Finland

3rd EURAF conference, Montpellier, France, May 2016

Sheep grazing vineyards (Vitipasture system)