Irish Agroforestry ForumShort, Ian2021-01-202021-01-202020Irish Agroforestry Forum, Why Dairy Farming and Silvopastoral Agroforestry Could Be The Perfect Match, Irish Farm Business Dairying, 2020, 7(2), 38-41http://hdl.handle.net/11019/2363Could 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.enAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/AgroforestrySilvicultureDairy farmingSilvopastureArticle