Blog 7 - Cropping Systems, Tillage and Crop Establishment
Blog 7 - Cropping Systems, Tillage and Crop Establishment Monocropping or polyculture? The pecan tree usually takes more than 10 years to grow. (Stark Bro's , n.d.) . Therefore it might be handy to set up a lay-out and plan for the farm site. The term agroforestry was first used in 1977 to describe the integration of trees and agriculture. But the integration of trees and agriculture is as old as the days of the Neolithic revolution when forestry and agriculture were combined to eventually be integrated into settled systems. (Smith, 2010) . Different options in agroforestry are listed underneath: - Multipurpose windbreaks enable you to protect crops from wind and develop a different ecosystem. In return you can place e.g. black walnut trees as these windbreaks which will give both walnuts, hazelnuts, shrubs or Christmas trees. (University of Minnesota, n.d.) - Forest farming or a plantation is only of use when one is working with a natural forest. The retur...