livestock grazing
Cattle eating grass
Livestock grazing is the practice of allowing domesticated animals—cattle, sheep, goats—to feed on grass and other vegetation in pastures or on open land.
The term appears in discussions of land management, environmental policy, and agricultural economics: livestock grazing on public lands, the impact of livestock grazing on native grasslands.
- plainsBroad, level grasslands
- grasslandTreeless herb-covered ecosystem
- grass fedRaised eating forage
- summer pastureWarm-season grazing land
- cattle driveMoving herd to market
land management · stockmen · soil erosion · overgrazing · droving · steppe · carrying capacity · herd behavior · veterinary care · cowboy · desertification · ranch · free range · water retention · biodiversity loss · carbon sequestration · herding · feedlot
- Pampas farmingcattle ranching, gauchos, soybeans, wheat farming, beef cattle
- farmingfarm, farms, farmer, farmers, crop
- desert farmingdate palms, dates, drip irrigation, irrigation canals, drought resistance
- farm ecologyagroforestry, beneficial insects, biological control, companion planting, cover crops
- Navajohogan, hogans, Navajo weaving, turquoise jewelry, Monument Valley
livestock grazingcrop cultivation
Growing food plants deliberately
rewilding · land conservation · wilderness preservation · afforestation · reforestation