As part of the National Rural Network program (www.reterurale.it), a study visit was organized at some agroforestry Tuscan farms that participated in the project 'NEWTON– NEtWork project for agroforestry in Tuscany', financed by the PSR sub-measures 1.1 and 1.2 of the Tuscany Region. The project studied 2 particularly interesting silvopastoral systems:
a) The Paganico estate, in the heart of the Tuscan Maremma, a few kilometers from Grosseto, covers an area of ​​1,500 hectares divided into woods, pastures, olive groves and vineyards immersed in nature rich in wildlife such as roe deer, hares and porcupines. The heart of the estate is the extensive organic breeding in the wild in pastures and Turkey oak woods (Quercus cerris L.) of Maremma cattle and Cinta Senese breed pigs.
b) The Pietratonda Company, conducted in organic farming, has about 100 ha of arable land cultivated with cereals and fodder, and 100 ha of wooded pastures, of which 35 ha are cork oaks (Quercus suber L.). Traditionally used for the breeding of AUBRAC breed beef cows in the wild and stall.