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

Red Tractor Farm

Silvoarable agroforestry under cork oak (Quercus suber)

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

Ploughing in between 14 year old walnut trees

Celtic Pigs in Silvopastoral Systems

Mature grazed woodland at Clapham Park

Goats and Fraxinus, Portugal

Oak agro-silvo-pastoral system

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