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pasture

[pas-cher, pahs-] / ˈpæs tʃər, ˈpɑs- /
NOUN
field for animals
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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

The government has put the dearth of milk in recent months down to drought, which has significantly reduced pasture and hampered production.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

The bottled Coca-Cola is sweetened with cane sugar, not high-fructose corn syrup, and the beef in the Steakburgers comes from cattle raised on pasture grass.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 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

The foragers could either run away, abandoning their hunting grounds to field and pasture, or take up the ploughshare themselves.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

The Cotswolds was badly hit by the drought, leaving grazing pastures brown and without any nutrition for the cows.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 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

The pastures and orchards back of Beacon Hill were crowded, and all eyes turned northward.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

Makers of Abondance cheese in the Alps, for example, will be authorised to reduce the amount of pastured grass in their animals' diet from 50% to 15%.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

The day includes a tour of the farm and a discussion of raising pastured pigs; butchering a whole hog and talking about various muscles and cooking applications; and making fresh sausage to take home.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 2022

Grass Roots Farmers' Cooperative sells grassfed beef, forested pork and pastured poultry from a network of small farms mostly located in Arkansas and Missouri and owns and operates its own processing.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2021

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

White ranchers pastured cattle there, especially during the dry years when no grass grew below the mountain.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko

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

ONE AFTERNOON, I’m pasturing the cow on the colegio grounds, walking along the concrete wall of the school.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau


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