Fodder trees on dairy farms - Extend the grazing season with trees and shrubs

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Agroforestry Policy Briefings? Why?

1. Agroforestry and the new CAP's Green Architecture

2. Agroforestry in the EU Forest Strategy

3. Agroforestry and CAP Direct Payments

4. Agroforestry and Enhanced Conditionality

5. Agroforestry and Ecoschemes

6. Agroforestry and Pillar II of the new CAP

7. Agroforestry CAP Monitoring

8. Agroforestery for Carbon Farming

9. AF Policy in England

10. EURAF reacts to the Commission's advice on CAP SPs

11. EU Agroforestry Policy for a North American Audience

12. EURAF reacts to the EU "Fit for 55 Package"

13. EURAF welcomes the “EU Soil Strategy for 2030”

14. Agroforestry in the CAP post 01/01/2023

15. Monitoring Trees Outside Forests in the EU

16. Agroforestry for the Green Deal transition

17. ENVI amendments fatally weaken the LULUCF Regulation

18. Agroforestry and the EU Nature Restoration Regulation

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Mulching for healthy tree seedlings

Successful tree establishment depends on minimising competition from other vegetation for water and nutrients. Mulching is one of the most beneficial practices a farmer can use to establish healthy tree plants.

Featured Farm of the day

"Juchowo Farm", North-Western Poland

“Juchowo Farm” is a large-scale farm in North-Western Poland near Szczecinek, established in 2000, operating on nearly 2,000 hectares of land. It is one of the best examples of a multifunctional farm in Poland and is a forerunner in the introduction of modern agroforestry practices in this part of Europe.

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Factsheet

Alley cropping, Seabuckthorn & Buffaloberry, canola and alfalfa

Traditional meadow in Joensuu, Finland

Red Tractor Farm

Oak agro-silvo-pastoral system

Wakelyns Agroforestry, Suffolk, UK

Sheep grazing vineyards (Vitipasture system)

Typical landscape of Montado with Holm oak (Quercus rotundifolia)

Iberian pig feeding on holm oak acorns

3rd EURAF conference, Montpellier, France, May 2016

Mixed livestock browsing in holm oak montado

Fodder trees on dairy farms - Extend the grazing season with trees and shrubs