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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

“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

Now she breeds her own yaks on 120 acres of pasture, foothills and mesa tops high in bucolic Ridgway, about 290 miles west of Denver.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026

These ranchers have also grappled with high costs for necessities like animal feed, pasture maintenance and farm labor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

There was enough winter pasture for the three cows, but just barely.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien

So Verstappen is earning a bit more money but, if Red Bull are still struggling for competitiveness next year, there will remain the prospect he could look for pastures new.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 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

Four years ago, a major drought dried up pastures and water supplies, forcing ranchers to sell their livestock.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

Did I break something or leave a gate open to the grazing pastures without realizing it?

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

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

Lee sources the beef for her burgers from Seven Hills Food, the slaughterhouse and processing facility that specializes in pastured Virginia beef.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 17, 2021

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

Not only that, but the kind of fats in pastured animals are the ones that are healthier for us to eat.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

The tradition of alpine pasturing, or “transhumance,” spreads all across the Alps, including Austria, Italy and Germany.

From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2024

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

“Cleaning the house and taking care of the boys and pasturing the cow.”

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau




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