In the highest elevations of the Alps, mixed forests and pasture provide grazing for cattle.
In autumn, winter and spring, hares occupied a heterogeneous combination of improved grassland, providing food, and Juncus-dominated rough pasture, providing refuge.
I had the help of the elm trees, which hung over the pasture and the shining river, and the surprise of a spring that came out of the bank above the pasture, providing water for the doomed horses and the cow and also for me, out of a tin mug I had found.
We conclude that regenerating pasture provides suitable supplemental habitat for Florida Scrub-Jays when in close proximity to native scrub, suggesting a novel conservation strategy for maintaining and potentially increasing local populations in fragmented agricultural settings.
And animals raised on pasture provide us with meat and dairy products containing more beta carotene and at least three times as much C.L.A. (conjugated linoleic acid, shown in animal studies to reduce the risk of cancer) than those raised on grain.
Pasture provides the fodder for livestock throughout most of the world.
Cows at pasture have longer lying times than when they are housed [ 43] and the pasture provides a more yielding walking surface than most free stall designs.
A quarter of the world's land is used for grazing, and extensive pasture provides 30percentt of total beef production and 23percentt for mutton (FAO, 1996e).
