Pasture

Pasture is land covered with grasses or other plants where livestock graze. It may be natural or managed through planting, grazing, and other practices.

Forage: Plant material eaten by grazing or browsing animals. Pasture provides forage, whose quantity and nutritional value shape livestock diets.
Rotational grazing: A grazing system that moves livestock among paddocks to allow grazed areas to recover. It manages pasture use by alternating grazing with periods of plant regrowth.
Pastoralism: A livelihood and production system centered on raising livestock on natural or cultivated grazing lands. Pastoralism depends on pasture and other grazing resources to sustain herds.
Overgrazing: Grazing pressure intense enough to impair plant recovery, soil condition, or ecosystem function. It shows how excessive livestock use can degrade pasture and reduce future forage.
Grassland: An ecosystem dominated by grasses and other herbaceous plants, with few trees. Pastures are managed grasslands, unlike grasslands shaped mainly by natural processes.
Continuous grazing: A grazing system in which livestock have ongoing access to the same pasture area. It contrasts with rotational grazing in how grazing pressure is distributed over time.
Silvopasture: A land-use system combining trees, forage plants, and livestock on the same area. It adds trees to pasture while retaining livestock grazing.
Soil erosion: The removal of soil by water, wind, or other forces. Loss of plant cover from poor pasture management can leave soil vulnerable to erosion.
Grazing: The feeding of livestock or wildlife on living plants in the field. Grazing is the principal way livestock harvest pasture plants.
Stocking rate: The number of animals grazing a given area for a specified period. Stocking rate determines how heavily livestock use pasture forage.

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