pasture grazing
Livestock eating outdoors
Pasture grazing is the practice of feeding livestock by letting them eat grass and other plants directly from the land, rather than providing harvested feed.
The term emphasizes the method over the location: rotational pasture grazing improves soil health, pasture grazing reduces feed costs.
It often appears in discussions of sustainable agriculture and animal husbandry.
- open rangeUnfenced public grazing land
- weed controlEliminating unwanted vegetation
- land stewardshipResponsible care of terrain
- carbon sequestrationRemoving and storing atmospheric CO2
- water retentionBody storing excess fluid
soil testing · habitat restoration · irrigation systems · climate resilience · cost-benefit analysis · energy balance · grass-fed · shepherd · carrying capacity · overgrazing · paddock · electric fencing · meadow
- British farmingsheep farming, dairy farming, cattle farming, mixed farming, pig farming
- Old Farmingplowing, harvesting, sowing, threshing, winnowing
- dairyingdairy farms, dairy cows, milk production, dairy farming, creameries
- New Zealand Exportslamb chops, kiwifruit, wool yarn, merino wool, manuka honey