Silvopasture, a portmanteau of the Latin words "silva" (forest) and "pastura" (grazing), is a form of agroforestry that the U.S. Department of Agriculture describes as "the deliberate integration ...

Silvopasture-Year-2-c. By University News Release November 2, 2015 Silvopasture is the integration of trees, livestock, and forage crops together on the same land to create dual income from ...

Small Scale Silvopasture Systems . Livestock producers should also consider agroforestry approaches. On a small homestead, smallholding, or farm, combining orchard trees or other useful trees into ...

Recent months have delivered a harvest of agroforestry funding news in the U.S., just as the season’s remaining crops ripened. The announcement of $60 million in support from the Department of ...

Such ambidexterity is called silvopasture, or agroforestry, and Alan Franzluebbers, a USDA research ecologist and soils scientist reported in a webinar this month on this team’s nine years of do ...

Silvopasture Is an Ancient, Climate-Smart Farming Practice: Can the Farm Bill Help ... the USDA awarded the Nature Conservancy and multiple partner organizations a $64 million grant to advance ...

For temperate agroforestry, the European Agroforestry Federation (EURAF) ... A silvopasture system in Tanzania. Image courtesy of World Agroforestry. Credits . Erik Hoffner Editor.

Today, only about 1.5% of farmers in the U.S. (approximately 31,000) practice any form of agroforestry, including silvopasture, a 2017 USDA survey revealed.

But they quickly realized that to adopt silvopasture, and for others to do the same, they needed support to help cover initial costs and investments; converting a ranch to silvopasture can cost up ...

Silvopasturing is agroforestry that steps up the diversification and management intensity, mixing strict rotational grazing with expanded long-term forage, timber and other forest production.