- For one, it's really great to have trees
in your agricultural system
because there's a benefit to the crops that you're growing
because they can actually, they often have deeper roots,
so they can redistribute the water
from deeper depth of the soil
into lower depths, so that the crops that you're growing
like corn and so forth can actually access the water.
At the same time, they also allow for a shading effect,
which is super beneficial for our livestock, the cows
because they don't like the heat.
Especially dairy cows,
they actually produce less milk when they get too warm,
and heat stress, like in humans, can really affect their health.
So it's really great to have trees for them
so that they can graze around and be happy.
Trees are also really beneficial
because cows emit greenhouse gases like methane and CO2,
and methane also breaks down into CO2 eventually
in the atmosphere.
But trees can take up some of the atmospheric CO2 then
and therefore, basically offset what our livestock is emitting.