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What (who) is Pasture - definition

LAND USED FOR GRAZING
Pastures; Pasturage; Pastureland; Grazed acreage; Sheepwalk; Pasturable; Pasturing; Pasture board
  • Mountain pasture in [[Switzerland]]
  • Hillside pasture in Pennsylvania.

pasture         
¦ noun
1. land covered mainly with grass, suitable for grazing cattle or sheep.
2. grass and herbage growing on such land.
¦ verb put (animals) to graze in a pasture.
Phrases
pastures new somewhere offering new opportunities. [suggested by 'Tomorrow to fresh woods and pastures new' (Milton's Lycidas).]
put out to pasture force to retire.
Origin
ME: from OFr., from late L. pastura 'grazing', from past-, pascere 'graze'.
Pasture         
·noun Food; nourishment.
II. Pasture ·noun Grass land for cattle, horses, ·etc.; pasturage.
III. Pasture ·vi To feed on growing grass; to Graze.
IV. Pasture ·noun Specifically: Grass growing for the food of cattle; the food of cattle taken by grazing.
V. Pasture ·vt To feed, ·esp. to feed on growing grass; to supply grass as food for; as, the farmer pastures fifty oxen; the land will pasture forty cows.
pasture         
(pastures)
1.
Pasture is land with grass growing on it for farm animals to eat.
The cows are out now, grazing in the pasture.
N-VAR
2.
If someone leaves for greener pastures, or in British English pastures new, they leave their job, their home, or the situation they are in for something they think will be much better.
Michael decided he wanted to move on to pastures new for financial reasons.
PHRASE: prep PHR, v PHR
3.
If you put animals out to pasture, you move them out into the fields so they can eat the grass.
PHRASE: V inflects

Wikipedia

Pasture

Pasture (from the Latin pastus, past participle of pascere, "to feed") is land used for grazing. Pasture lands in the narrow sense are enclosed tracts of farmland, grazed by domesticated livestock, such as horses, cattle, sheep, or swine. The vegetation of tended pasture, forage, consists mainly of grasses, with an interspersion of legumes and other forbs (non-grass herbaceous plants). Pasture is typically grazed throughout the summer, in contrast to meadow which is ungrazed or used for grazing only after being mown to make hay for animal fodder. Pasture in a wider sense additionally includes rangelands, other unenclosed pastoral systems, and land types used by wild animals for grazing or browsing.

Pasture lands in the narrow sense are distinguished from rangelands by being managed through more intensive agricultural practices of seeding, irrigation, and the use of fertilizers, while rangelands grow primarily native vegetation, managed with extensive practices like controlled burning and regulated intensity of grazing.

Soil type, minimum annual temperature, and rainfall are important factors in pasture management.

Sheepwalk is an area of grassland where sheep can roam freely. The productivity of sheepwalk is measured by the number of sheep per area. This is dependent, among other things, on the underlying rock. Sheepwalk is also the name of townlands in County Roscommon, Ireland, and County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. Unlike factory farming, which entails in its most intensive form entirely trough-feeding, managed or unmanaged pasture is the main food source for ruminants. Pasture feeding dominates livestock farming where the land makes crop sowing or harvesting (or both) difficult, such as in arid or mountainous regions, where types of camel, goat, antelope, yak and other ruminants live which are well suited to the more hostile terrain and very rarely factory-farmed. In more humid regions, pasture grazing is managed across a large global area for free range and organic farming. Certain types of pasture suit the diet, evolution and metabolism of particular animals, and their fertilising and tending of the land may over generations result in the pasture combined with the ruminants in question being integral to a particular ecosystem.

Examples of use of Pasture
1. The pasture was the biggest of several battlegrounds around Djawara.
2. Attacks usually happen over access to rare pasture and water.
3. They want to take over watering points and pasture lands.
4. They could leave it fallow or rent it for pasture.
5. Watch Yellowstone bison search for pasture» The U.S.