SLM Database

A mixture of silvopastoral agroforestry approaches, including extensive and rotational cattle grazing around trees, provide benefits for biodiversity as well as leaf fodder for cattle, edible fruits and nuts, and wood fuel.

• Compiler: Alan Radbourne
• 07/14/2022 12:38 p.m.

Use of diverse herbal leys in dairy production. Provides resilient forage that improves soil health and provides a habitat for biodiversity within a rotational grazing system

• Compiler: Alan Radbourne
• 09/03/2021 12:31 p.m.

The addition of organic matter, such as compost, to soils on farms can enhance soil health with benefits for soil organisms, soil structure, carbon sequestration and plant production.

• Compiler: Alan Radbourne
• 07/01/2021 5:19 p.m.

Silvopastoral Agroforestry in a natural farmed environment – This is an alley cropping system with rows of Perry pears and timber trees inter-planted with coppiced willow and alder. The pasture in between the rows is mob grazed with young dairy stock.

• Compiler: Alan Radbourne
• 07/09/2019 1:39 p.m.

Non-inversion and ‘shallow’ ploughing cultivation strategies on an organic farm, where the use of herbicides for weed control is prohibited.

• Compiler: Sabine Reinsch
• 06/10/2019 11:52 a.m.

Crop establishment with minimal soil disturbance

• Compiler: Ceris A. Jones
• 02/24/2011 7:43 a.m.

Surface cultivation of up to the top 10cm of soil but not complete inversion

• Compiler: Ceris A. Jones
• 02/24/2011 9:41 a.m.

Improved soil management based on non-inversion tillage for cost-effective and timely crop establishment.

• Compiler: Alastaire Leake
• 02/24/2011 10:37 a.m.

Surface cultivation of the top 10cm of soil but not complete inversion

• Compiler: Ceris A. Jones
• 02/24/2011 10:09 a.m.

Non-inversion tillage to create a seedbed

• Compiler: Ceris A. Jones
• 02/24/2011 8:50 a.m.