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Why Dairy Farming And Silvopastoral Agroforestry Could Be The Perfect Match

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Agroforestry, Silviculture, Dairy farming, Silvopasture
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2020
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Forestry
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Agroforestry article in Irish Farm Business - Dairying vol7 iss2 Oct 2020.pdf
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http://hdl.handle.net/11019/2363
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Irish Agroforestry Forum, Why Dairy Farming and Silvopastoral Agroforestry Could Be The Perfect Match, Irish Farm Business Dairying, 2020, 7(2), 38-41
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Could we be missing a trick here? Could silvopasture be a design solution to the environmental challenges facing farming? Can it be the ideal mechanism to combine agriculture, forestry and ecology with very positive outcomes for farmers? Well -designed silvopasture can help increase profits and productivity, animal, and soil health, diversify the farm business, buffer against increasingly variable weather, drought and flood risks while benefiting the environment, the water cycle and the carbon cycle.
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Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
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