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
“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
Back in the pasture, Namgyal moved the herd down the fence line.
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
Sam was down at the bottom of the pasture about a hundred yards away, charging up at me as fast as he could come.
From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
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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
Moist vegetation needs to be planted among the pines, he said, and bigger fire buffer zones are needed on each town’s outer edges, such as ball fields or livestock pastures.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
Some Americans don’t want these cash cows arriving in nearby pastures, and one naturally wonders why.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
But the summer's drought, which affected 95 percent of mainland France in July, has left normally rich pastures dry and bare.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
There were great stables, where a dozen grooms and boys held forth, rows of vine-clad servants’ cottages, an endless and orderly array of outhouses, long grape arbors, green pastures, orchards, and berry patches.
From "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London
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More recently, Lake, who grows vegetables such as asparagus, tomatoes and zucchini, as well as pastured meat, has been using software and an app from a company called Tend.
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2026
Cows and sheep should not be allowed to roam over public lands and should be pastured in fenced areas and protected by guard dogs.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 10, 2023
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
Shopping for 100% grassfed beef or pastured chicken used to mean seeking out a specialty butcher shop, visiting a farmers' market, or going straight to the source by stopping by a local farm.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2021
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
The next day, when I come back from pasturing the cow, the Doctorita is in an unusually good mood, listening to music, waltzing around the house, her cheeks rosy.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
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