Trees for shelter - JVAP Series No. 6
Field research at sites across Australia’s grain and livestock growing belts provided large amounts of valuable data.In addition, a predictive capacity was developed to generalise...
Trees for Shelter – a guide to using windbreaks on Australian farms (Chapter 1 only)
17 pages
Published: 1 Jun 2003
Author(s): Cleugh, Helen
ISBN: 0-642-58458-3
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NB: This PDF only includes Chapter 1 of the book. To borrow or order copies of the full book, please visit the National Library of Australia’s website (Catalogue No. 3047369).
Trees for shelter: a guide to using windbreaks on Australian farms has been produced to help farmers, land managers and policy makers realise the potential environmental and economic gains of integrating windbreaks into farming systems. This draws on the National Windbreaks Program findings and subsequent research to explain:
- how windbreaks work;
- their effects on factors that might limit productivity; and
- how to design and maintain an effective windbreak system.
Chapter 1 ‘Why windbreaks?’ illustrates the potential for wind shelter to improve crop and animal productivity, especially in Australia. It maps out the structure of the book and how it should be used and concludes with a description of the National Windbreaks Program, whose results underpin much of the information presented.