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Tree regeneration in grazed wood pastures

Why do we need to support tree regeneration?

Dehesas and Montados are very suitable for pasture production. However, livestock grazing hampers the natural regeneration of the tree layer, especially in areas with challenging soil and climate conditions. Seed predation by domestic and wild animals, abiotic stresses (drought, high summer temperatures and infertile soils), and the lack of suitable microsites for seed germination are major impediments to seedling establishment and survival.

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Featured Farm of the day

Mixed Crop-Dairy Cattle Farm in South-Western France

In 2000, they decided that ploughing had to stop and that their agricultural system could be modelled as closely as possible to the forest, with constant inputs of organic matter to enhance bacterial life in the soil.

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Whitehall Farm, Cambs, UK, apples and arable

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

Collection of reindeer

Holm oak, pasture + turkey

Typical landscape of Montado with Holm oak (Quercus rotundifolia)

Darliner Farm

Agroforestry with chicken

Wakelyns Agroforestry, Suffolk, UK

Weed control at Bosques Naturales

Ploughing in between 14 year old walnut trees