🐄 Full team setting up another #grazing trial of our fodder tree hedgerows in the #AgroForageTreeProject 🌳 In the background, we can clearly see the impacts of the ongoing extreme #drought event on grassland vegetation but no impacts on the fodder #trees so far! #agroforestry @agroscope.bsky.social

🌳🍃🐄 Grazing trials of our fodder tree hedgerows are starting in the #AgroForageTreeProject Despite the #heatwave and #drought, trees are still green with a lots of leaves (not like the yellowish grassland). So far cows seem to enjoy this green forage #agroforestry @snsf.ch @agroscope.bsky.social

Full team in the #AgroForageTreeProject to count tree leaves and assess fodder yield before the grazing trials that are coming soon 🌳🍃🐄 #agroforestry @agroscope.bsky.social @snsf.ch

🌳🍃🐄 Our fodder tree #hedgerows are doing well despite the #heat wave and #drought, not like #grasslands that already turned yellow few weeks ago. They are ready to be eaten by cows in the coming weeks. #agroforestry #AgroForageTreeProject @agroscope.bsky.social @snsf.ch

🌳🍃🐄 On Wednesday afternoon, Julie Botzas-Coluni and I presented the #AgroForageTreeProject during one excursion of the #EURAF2026 conference in Neuchâtel🇨🇭 Despite the extremely hot weather, we had great discussions and knowledge exchange about fodder trees. @agroscope.bsky.social @snsf.ch

🌳🍃Our #fodder #tree hedgerows are growing well in the #AgroForageTreeProject @agroscope.bsky.social @snsf.ch #agroforestry

😎 Full team to collect samples for leaf functional traits measurements and species sorting in the #DryMountProject 🌱☀️ @emilieroinel.bsky.social

🎉 Happy International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia & Biphobia #IDAHOBIT 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Today, @emilieroinel.bsky.social presented the findings of her PhD on #drought resistant #forage mixtures to the farmers during the annual Spring Day of the Swiss #Grassland Society with more than 300 participants 🌱🇨🇭 #DryMountProject @agroscope.bsky.social

🌳🌱Continuying vegetation surveys along the fodder tree hedgerows in the #AgroForageTreeProject @agroscope.bsky.social @snsf.ch #agroforestry

🌳🌱🍄‍🟫🪲🕷️🐜 This week we are sampling micro, meso and #macrofauna in our fodder #tree #hedgerows and in adjacent grazed #grassland to assess the impact of this #agroforestry system on #soil #biodiversity #AgroForageTreeProject @snsf.ch @agroscope.bsky.social

The Grazing Systems group from @agroscope.bsky.social at the European Grassland Federation conference in Evora🇵🇹 #EGF2026 Caren Pauler @pierremariotte.bsky.social Lucia Mochi @emilieroinel.bsky.social Julie Botzas-Coluni

🌳🍃🐂🐐Lucia Mochi just gave a talk on the nutritional value of the encroaching #Alnus viridis shrub and its selection by #livestock (goats, Highland cattle, heifers of productive breeds) at the European Grassland Federation conference #EGF2026 #shrubencroachment @agroscope.bsky.social @snsf.ch

🌱🚜 Today I am presenting a poster at the European Grassland Federation conference in Evora🇵🇹 on the sum of temperatures as a decision-making tool for the #management of permanent #grasslands #EGF2026 @agroscope.bsky.social

🌳🍃🐄 Julie Botzas-Coluni just presented some results of the #AgroForageTreeProject at the European Grassland Federation conference in #Evora🇵🇹 #agroforestry #grasslands #EGF2026 @snsf.ch @agroscope.bsky.social

The @agroscope.bsky.social team at the European Grassland Federation conference in #Evora 🇵🇹 #EGF2026 #grasslands 🌱

🌱☀️ @emilieroinel.bsky.social is presenting the results of the #DryMountProject on drought-resistant forage mixtures at the #EGF2026 conference in Evora🇵🇹 @agroscope.bsky.social @jkloetzli.bsky.social

Fieldwork is starting in the #AgroForageTreeProject with vegetations surveys along the fodder tree hedgerows 🌱🌳🐐🫏 @snsf.ch @agroscope.bsky.social #agroforestry

Very proud of my two PhD students presenting their results at the Annual Meeting of @britishecologicalsociety.org #BES2025 Julie Botzas-Coluni #AgroForageTreeProject @snsf.ch @charlottegrossiord.bsky.social Emilie Roinel @emilieroinel.bsky.social #DryMountProject @agroscope.bsky.social

This month, we pruned our fodder trees in the #AgroForageTreeProject with some helpers eating the last remaining leaves 🌳🍃🐄 @agroscope.bsky.social @snsf.ch

🌳The 8th European #Agroforestry Conference will be held in #Switzerland in June 2026🇨🇭 ⚠️ Only few days left to submit a session proposal www.euraf2026.ch

Representing @agroscope.bsky.social at the 23rd EGF Symposium 2025 @emilieroinel.bsky.social 🌱☘️🌾

@emilieroinel.bsky.social presented the first results of the #DryMountProject at the European Grassland Federation conference #EGF2025 @agroscope.bsky.social

Goats love tree leaves 🌳🌿🍃🐐 #AgroForageTreeProject #Agroforestry @agroscope.bsky.social

Reportage TV sur notre projet de haies fourragères 🌳🍃🐄#AgroForageTreeProject @agroscope.bsky.social @snsf.ch

The Grazing Systems group @agroscope.bsky.social doing fieldwork in the canton of Grisons🇨🇭

In August, we are assessing the leaf biomass production (forage yield) of our six fodder trees species in the #AgroForageTreeProject. Even Alpacas like to eat tree leaves 🌳🌿🍃 @agroscope.bsky.social @snsf.ch

⚠️ Call for Special Feature @journalofecology.bsky.social Functional traits in primary producers: recent advances and future directions. Topics include: - Approaches in understanding, measuring and predicting traits - Scaling from traits to ecosystem processes. Submit here: shorturl.at/sP5LC

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