First-Ever Report Highlights Benefits of Agroforestry to Farmers, Ranchers

The U.S. Department of Agriculture released the first-ever report on the department’s role in agroforestry. Agroforestry: USDA Reports to America highlights ways agroforestry practices help farmers and ranchers enhance agricultural productivity, protect the environment and increase profits. Agroforestry is a management approach that combines agriculture and forestry to create more sustainable land-use systems. Over the past five years, USDA has assisted landowners financially and with technical guidance to establish nearly 336,000 acres of windbreaks, riparian forest buffers and ally cropping; about 2,000 acres of silvopasture and about 500 acres of forest farming. Learn more or review the report.