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Article: Multi-cropping with trees: increase your production by planting tree crops in your pastures.
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- Countryside & Small Stock Journal
- Article date:
- July 1, 1993
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How would you like to have a pasture which provided tons of high protein forage per year per acre with almost no effort on your part? How would you like to have a pasture which provided grazing and a commercial crop as well? Too good to be true? Maybe not.
I recently found a copy of Forest Farming (Rodale Press, 1976) by J. S. Douglas and R. A. Hart. The authors, inspired by J. Russell Smith's Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture elaborated on the potential of trees to do triple duty -- conservation, tree crops and livestock feeding. (A fourth use would be selective harvesting.)
Gow crops suited to the land
The authors joined Smith in his ...