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
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
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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
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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
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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
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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