Sentence examples for forage supplies from inspiring English sources

Another factor is the planting of vast areas in a single crop like corn, limiting the forage supplies for bees.

During droughts, they also resort to State-subsidized forage supplies.

According to SKAP (1992), although natural grazing land and forage supplies in Gadarif area have been depleted in both quantity and quality due to recent changes in land use, they are now supplemented by livestock feed sources provided by arable farms.

We estimate that these alas grasslands can provide enough forage supply for local communities.

Increasing forage supply from rangelands is difficult, which is why most authors recommend improving agro-pastoral integration.

The widespread use of different bush control techniques would serve to stabilize forage supply in these semi-arid rangelands by improving overall forage production in drought years.

The reason goats are responsive to rainfall variability in this study could be that they do not forage far from the degraded ranges around homesteads (McCabe [1987]) as they have to return to the kraal at night and are thus more vulnerable to fluctuations in forage supply.

The recent expansion of cropping areas by farmers (mostly migrants) has led to a significant restriction of pastoral areas, making the movement of herds very difficult and significantly reducing forage supply for herds, especially during the rainy season (Turner et al. 2005; Dongmo et al. 2007; Vall and Diallo 2009).

The destructive role played by mechanized rain-fed agriculture as a main factor for natural vegetation clearings in the region (Sulieman and Buchroithner 2006) and the trade-off due to meeting gaps in forage supply for pastoralist livestock that result from mechanized agriculture is an issue that needs to be carefully examined.

Overgrazing is the opposite of this: it is when grazing pressure is high, and is when animal needs exceeds forage supply.

Undergrazing is when grazing pressure is low, or there are few animal units per unit of forage mass (the amount of forage in dry matter per unit of land area at a single point in time), and is when forage supply exceeds animal needs.