pasturage

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Here in rural Somalia, where about 50% of the people depend on animals for their livelihoods, the locusts are eating the pasturage.

From Washington Times • Feb. 9, 2020

Its thin, rocky soil favored pasturage over wheat fields, so New Englanders raised livestock and caught codfish instead.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

He gave form to “the heavenly pasturage our minds can find in things,” is how Proust once put it.

From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2010

On rolling land that could provide some of the lushest cattle and sheep pasturage in the world, wheat is being grown, encouraged by government price supports despite the world wheat glut.

From Time Magazine Archive

Many herding peoples of Africa and Asia shift camp along regular seasonal routes to take advantage of predictable seasonal changes in pasturage.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond