grazing
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These cleared spaces can provide appealing grazing areas for smaller animals.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
Floodplain meadows were once a traditional part of the countryside, providing food for grazing animals and storing rain water in the winter.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
But urbanisation, changing land use and the abandonment of grazing and other traditional farming practises, appear to have significantly reduced available food sources, the wildlife groups noted.
From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026
This yields higher profit margins and allows her to manage a smaller herd with rotational grazing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
Lush tall grasses spread as far as the eye could see, a rolling green expanse that was disturbed only by a few small, rusted oil pumps and by cattle grazing here and there.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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Livestock are moved from one paddock to another, allowing pastures rest between grazings.
From New York Times ● May 2, 2015
Those having the ditch on the outer side are always the earlier, the ditch being the defence against the cattle that strayed on the unenclosed common or grazings outside.
From The Naturalist on the Thames by Cornish, C. J. (Charles John)
Instead, the thin sheep of the clansmen, each with its owner's brand to identify it, wander forth to the common grazings, glad that the bloom of living is on Nature again.
From The Black Colonel by Milne, James
It is a wild country, scrub-covered, antelope-haunted plains rising into desolate hills, but there are many kloofs and valleys with rich water meadows and lush grazings, which formed natural granaries and depots for the enemy.
From The Great Boer War by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
The milch cows were fed below, except during the time the farmer's family removed to the distant grazings called sheilings.
From Folklore as an Historical Science by Gomme, George Laurence