Presentation of the compared case studies

5 CS are studied. In each of them we have compared ccopperating farms with non-cooperating farms, these farms showing an integration between crops and livestock or not.

  • Ebro Basin (Spain) : local exchange of manure for straw

  • Cavan (Ireland): local exchange of grain for slurry

  • Domagné (France): provision of high quality forages through a cooperative dehydratation facility

  • Winterswijk (the Netherlands): land exchange between dairy and arable farms

  • Thurgau-Grisons (Switzerland): animal exchanges (heifers) between lowland and highland regions