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All silvopasturing practitioners are graziers and thus have or are rapidly developing grazing skills. One observed weakness in this group are the tree-management skills. Some of this lack of knowledge on the silvicultural side of silvopasturing can be overcome by working with consulting foresters - though it's not always easy to find these professionals, much less enlist their help for small or non-typical projects.
While continuing your studies at Iowa State, I recommend pursuing any available forestry coursework. The other key area of silvopasturing in which I think we could all use some more education is economics. Too often I see farmers do things because of the personal appeal vs. a careful analysis of the benefits. Any coursework in ag/forest economics would be time well spent.
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Agroforestry Note #50: Considerations for Establishing Silvopastures on Wooded Sites is now online at the…Continue
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An nice example of how silvopasturing makes sense just about anywhere that trees & forages can be grown together:…Continue
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There are related discussions on the forum discussing shade tolerant forages mixes and profiling a number of farms that have used various strategies to get good stuff growing after letting the…Continue
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Hello everyone!We live in northern Canada, we have Aspen, birch, popular, willows and various wild roses and berry shrubs as well as white and black spruce mainly some pine. What I have been trying…Continue
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