Explore: Pasture Crop

meant only plants eaten by the animals directly as pasture, crop residue, or immature cereal crops, but it is also used more loosely to include similar

managed or unmanaged pasture is the main food source for ruminants. Pasture feeding dominates livestock farming where the land makes crop sowing or harvesting

control, and improved biodiversity. The introduction of certain legume crops to pastures can increase carbon accumulation and nitrogen fixation in soils, while

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for grain, straw, hay, or pasture. Oats are the most common nurse crop, though other annual grains are also used. Nurse cropping of tall or dense-canopied

under temporary agricultural crops (multiple-cropped areas are counted only once), temporary meadows for mowing or pasture, land under market and kitchen

source of livelihood." In this system, cattle are primarily fed on pastures, crop residues and fallows. Mixed farming systems are the largest category

Some of the fixed nitrogen becomes available to later crops, so legumes play a key role in crop rotation. The term pulse, as used by the United Nations'

larvae in these pastures can lead to significant crop damage. During the spring and summer seasons, when grasses overtake these pastures, conditions are

introduced around the world as a pasture crop in Australia and Brazil. A. gayanus was introduced as a pasture crop in many parts of the world, including