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How Now Brown Cow?

Season 4 | Episode 4 | May 1, 2023

Foresters have been warning landowners for years about the potentially damaging impacts of cows in their woods. So it is not surprising that we raise an eyebrow when conversations start about intentionally integrating livestock and forests. In this episode of SilviCast we explore the management practice known as silvopasture, or the intentional integration of trees, forage, and livestock. Join us as we discuss what silvopasture is and is not, with Rich Straight, Technology Transfer Leader at the U.S. Forest Service’s National Agroforestry Center.

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Richard Straight

Technology Transfer Leader and Agroforester, U.S. Forest Service, USDA National Agroforestry Center

Richard Straight is an agroforester with the US Forest Service at the USDA National Agroforestry Center (NAC) in Lincoln, Nebraska. Straight began his rural forestry career with the Nebraska Forest Service as a district forester assisting farmers, ranchers, communities, and a variety of state agencies to design, establish, and manage tree plantings, windbreaks, wildlife habitat, and riparian buffers. In 1997 Straight was the Nebraska Forester for USDA/NRCS, providing training, conservation practice standards, and program rules development. Straight joined the USDA NAC as the lead agroforester for outreach and education in 2000. Since then, he has assisted in training hundreds of natural resource professionals, farmers, landowners, and non-government organization staff.


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