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Grazing sheep under walnut trees - Producing high quality timber whilst reducing costs

Why introduce livestock?

There is a high demand for hardwood timber, such as hybrid walnut, in the EU. To meet this demand, over the last decade, hardwood plantations have substantially increased production in many Spanish regions. Intensive management is often required to grow these trees in short rotations. Such management comprises irrigation, fertilisation, and chemical weed control. However, this level of management has high economic and environmental costs. Plantation management accounts for more than 45% of the total investment costs. Moreover, these operations can have major environmental impacts, similar to the effects of intensive agriculture systems.

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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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Contact: info [at] europeanagroforestry [dot] eu

Typical landscape of Montado with Holm oak (Quercus rotundifolia)

Agroforestry with chicken

Red Tractor Farm

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

Fattening pigs in willow Research Centre Foulum

Sheep in Apple Orchards Loughgall

Alley cropping system of Poplar in Forst, Germany

Darliner Farm

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

Traditional meadow in Joensuu, Finland

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