Sentence examples for pasture availability from inspiring English sources

Pasture availability is of course one of the factors determining milk productivity.

Nomadic pastoralists often cover great distances with their livestock (Figure 1), following pasture availability (Blench 2001).

The pastures were of good quality and the pasture availability was high.

Intake is calculated in relation to stage of lactation, pasture availability, supplementary feed, and feed quality.

It is also an area characterized by growing conflicts between communities over land, water and pasture availability.

The nomadic pastoralists had no fixed homesteads and covered great distances with their livestock following pasture availability throughout the seasons.

After calving, cows received a commercial mineral supplement and were managed under a rotational grazing system with supplementary feed added to maintain a pasture forage availability of 1,200 kg DM and an estimated total intake of 18 kg DM/cow/day.

Results were recorded to be increased pastures availability, dry season grazing reserves and more reproductive and healthier animals for enclosure owners (Makokha et al. 1999).

Eight Gir × Holstein cows were maintained on a low-quality Brachiaria brizantha pasture with reduced forage availability, but they individually received, on average, 3 kg/cow daily (as fed) of a corn-based concentrate from d −28 to 0 of the experiment.

From d −28 to d 0, cows were allocated according to nutritional treatment (5 cows/treatment) into 2 low-quality pastures with reduced forage availability.

The paper analyzes the factors affecting sustainability of small ruminant livestock systems in the Mediterranean basin, such as seasonal forage availability or suboptimal pasture utilisation due to overgrazing but also the factor of undergrazing.