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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

Wakelyns Agroforestry - a diverse organic silvoarable system in the UK

The general layout of the farm (Google Earth UK postcode IP21 5SD) is a series of 2 ha alley-cropping systems, with all production hedges aligned north-south on each side of 12m wide cropping areas. There are two coppice systems (hazel, willow), two mixed hardwood systems (ash, hornbeam, Italian alder, oak, small-leaved lime, sycamore, wild cherry, with or without apple) and two mixed fruit and nut systems. The organic crop rotation (cereals-ley-potatoes/squash-ley-cereals) runs as a single cycle around the whole farm.

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

3rd EURAF conference, Montpellier, France, May 2016

Knepp Re-Wilding Project

Montado near Montemor-o-Novo

Darliner Farm

Celtic Pigs in Silvopastoral Systems

Oak agro-silvo-pastoral system

Red Tractor Farm

Alley-cropping at Vattholma, Sweden

Whitehall Farm, Cambs, UK, apples and arable