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Why triticale?

Productivity of natural pastures in Iberian dehesas is usually low and very variable (on average 1440 kg dry matter (DM) ha/yr). They also provide low nutritive value forage, containing 4-20% legume fraction, 9-12% crude protein, 44-59% neutral detergent fibre and 28-37% acid detergent fibre.

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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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Silvopastoral system with Ash at Loughall, Northern Ireland

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

Montado near Montemor-o-Novo

Sheep in Apple Orchards Loughgall

Silvoarable agroforestry experiment with poplar and barley

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Willow silvopasture

Holm oak, pasture + turkey

Alley-cropping at Vattholma, Sweden

Fattening pigs in willow Research Centre Foulum

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