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Fodder trees for micronutrient supply in grass-based dairy systems - Multiple advantages for biodiversity and animal welfare

Why plant trees?

Currently, Dutch dairy farms usually feed their cattle with a combination of spring/summer grazing and imported maize silage and/or concentrates. Incorporating fodder trees in dairy farms can be a good alternative option to maize silage and concentrates, and for supplementing cows with macro and micro elements. In this leaflet, focus is placed on selenium, as it has been found to be lacking in the diet of grass-fed ruminants in the Netherlands.

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Zsörk Vinehill in Hungary

How diversity survives in the Hungarian agrarian landscape......and why it is so difficult to deal with

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Grazed orchard

Silvoarable agroforestry experiment with poplar and barley

Grape harvesting in between Sorbus domestica

2nd EURAF Conference, 4-6 June 2014, Cottbus, Germany

Olive tree silvarable-pastoral system, near Viterbo, Italy

Montado near Montemor-o-Novo

Mature grazed woodland at Clapham Park

Weed control at Bosques Naturales

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

Ploughing in between 14 year old walnut trees

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