From Pine Forest to A Silvopasture System

Authors

Terry Clason, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center
James L. Robinson, NRCS Agroforester, United States Department of Agriculture, National Agroforestry Center, United States Department of Agriculture, NRCS

Date of this Version

April 2000

Document Type

Newsletter Issue

Citation

National Agroforestry Center, United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Station, United States Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Lincoln, Nebraska

Comments

United States government work

Abstract

Agroforestry systems hold the potential for land users to realize diverse income-generating possibilities from the same acreage, as well as meet environmental goals. Silvopasture systems are agroforestry systems that incorporate the production of forage and/or livestock with the growing of trees for a timber product. The silvopasture system can be developed from a pasture system with the trees incorporated into the open fields or it can be developed from a forest plantation with the forage incorporated into the plantation following a thinning to reduce tree canopy.