2023/12/13 by Novak, Sandra, Delagarde, Rémy, Fiorelli, Jean-Louis
#0 #Agroecology #Agroécologie #Bioclimatic milk #Co-conception #Crops #Culture #Diversification #Eau #Energy #Forage system #Grazing #Lait bioclimatique #Ligneux #Mixed crop-livestock farming #Participatory design #Polyculture-élevage #Pâturage #Ruminant #Système fourrager #Water #Woody plant #Énergie
paper · doi:10.17180/7358-wd19
This article presents the results of a collaborative thought organized to build a research project on innovative forage systems achieving the new challenges that dairy farming will have to face, and which gathered researchers of INRA, a representative of the Scientific Interst Group "GIS Elevages Demain", as well as professionals and association representatives. The new forage systems were built in the frame of mixed crop-livestock farming and they will aim to make the best use of abiotic factors and of climate change, while saving water and energy resources and preserving or enhancing soil fertility. These so-called "bioclimatic systems" will have the additional main objectives to have limitied adverse effects on environment and to contribute to attenuate climate change, while assuring the welfare of farmers and animals, and expectations of society. The bioclimatic forage systems will be prototyped to fit for the climate change that will occur in the medium term on the leading dairy regions of France. It will be implemented in a pluriannual experiment at the farm scale in Poitou-Charentes area, assuming its current climatic conditions foreshadow the future climate of these leading dairy regions. The whole mixed corp-dairy system will be redesigned by relying on agroecological approaches based on the diversification of forage resources using efficiently rainfall water and nutrients. Key elements on the management over time of this diversity and of the three-dimensional space (herb, shub and tree layers) to enhance the resilience of the system will also be developed. The animal requirements will be optimized at the farm level, in order to save as much as possible thses two resources. This project is still under co-construction and you are invited to contact us ([email protected]) and to contribute to it. In the longer term, this project aims also to network multidisciplinary partners interested to work an bioclimatic forage systems at various levels.