pasture
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Livestock and crops die where pasture and water supplies are buried or contaminated by ash.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
“There’s no paid staff, and we mostly support niche tech projects, like people exploring new ways to preserve trees in Morocco or to regeneratively regrow a pasture in Oregon,” Khosla told me.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
Back in the pasture, Namgyal moved the herd down the fence line.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
These ranchers have also grappled with high costs for necessities like animal feed, pasture maintenance and farm labor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
He bade each man choose out three thick-fleeced rams and bind them together with strong, pliant strips of bark; then to wait for day, when the flock would be sent out to pasture.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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So Verstappen is earning a bit more money but, if Red Bull are still struggling for competitiveness next year, there will remain the prospect he could look for pastures new.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
Rancher Jay Fetcher said that with climate change, the snow is melting much earlier in the spring on his high-elevation pastures.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
But that focus on greener pastures is as persistent as the apparent blood feud between Texas and Tennessee.
From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2026
"It rained a lot this winter; the pastures were very overgrown," Rodriguez said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
‘Because we is meant to be in the middle of London and suddenly we is in green pastures.’
From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
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More recently, Lake, who grows vegetables such as asparagus, tomatoes and zucchini, as well as pastured meat, has been using software and an app from a company called Tend.
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2026
Cows and sheep should not be allowed to roam over public lands and should be pastured in fenced areas and protected by guard dogs.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 10, 2023
Cooking more at home, eliminating ultra-processed food, choosing grass-fed beef, dairy products and pastured eggs from certified humane companies all go a long way in helping to shift away from eating a high omega-6 diet.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2023
Last year, $14-per-pound exotic mushrooms, $20 pastured chickens and $50 bottles of olive oil were not uncommon purchases.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 4, 2019
Zoyla and Gregoria and I used to play market together while we pastured the animals.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
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In the past 30 years, swaths of Nicaragua's vast Caribbean forests have been destroyed by settlers clearing land for agriculture, ranchers pasturing cattle, and loggers harvesting precious wood.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2020
“We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.”
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 19, 2015
“And what is the history? The horse pasturing has been going on for a long time there with no objection.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 24, 2015
The horse in question, Raisa, might have expected a quiet pasturing after a working life carrying members of the Metropolitan Police Service.
From Time ● Mar. 28, 2012
The literature of veterinary medicine abounds in similar examples: swine eating sprayed cockleburs with consequent severe illness, lambs eating sprayed thistles, bees poisoned by pasturing on mustard sprayed after it came into bloom.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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