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Pigs and poplars - A smart combination for environmental protection, animal welfare and meat quality

Why keep pigs together with poplars?

Free-range systems aim to support animal welfare and are common in organic pork production. However, they do represent an environmental risk due to the depositing of manure. Maximum stocking rates are prescribed assuming that nutrients released with manure will be spread uniformly in the field and may be absorbed by cover crops roots. In practice, there are several problems with these assumptions: pigs often decide to use one specific part of the paddock to defecate; sandy-soil fixes a small amount of nutrients; and herbaceous cover crops are more active during spring summer and less so in other seasons (Tagliapietra et al. 2007).

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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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Po Valley, Italy, in the XVIII century

Oil on copperplate by anonymous Flemish painter, hsl««alf of the XVIII century. It depicts an ancient agrarian landscape which could be found in reclaimed and cultivated lands, comprised between the town walls and the Reno river.

3rd EURAF conference, Montpellier, France, May 2016

Cereal silvoarable agroforestry (South Portugal)

Wild asparagus in traditional olive orchard at CRA OLI Spoleto, Italy

Traditional meadow in Joensuu, Finland

Holm oak, pasture + turkey

Montado near Montemor-o-Novo

Agroforestry with chicken

Silvopastoral system with Ash at Loughall, Northern Ireland

Walnut and Maize

Willow coppice, Netherlands

Agroforestry in Art