Sentence examples for rangeland from inspiring English sources

But this year the primary corn (maize) and soyabean agricultural belt has been hard hit by the drought of the past three months: crops, pastures and rangeland have deteriorated at a rate rarely seen in the past 20 years.

Wildfires are the only natural disturbances (ie, disasters) man has been able to routinely control, allowing industrialisation of forest and rangeland ecosystems to provide food, water and shelter while limiting both the societal nuisance and ecological service associated with fire on the landscape.

With many small lakes and luxuriant grasses, the Sand Hills area is a superb rangeland.

In boreal regions and mountainous areas, species of Carex are often important pasture and rangeland plants and may even be managed, as, for example, meadows of Carex lyngbyei in Iceland.

Najd villages that once depended on November rains to raise their winter wheat now irrigate and farm year-round; but overgrazing near government-provided wells has led to serious deterioration of rangeland in the Najd.

The agricultural land base of Oregon includes both cropland and pastures and rangeland.

A far greater proportion of agricultural land is classified as pasture and rangeland than as cropland.

Even in the United States, when rangeland and pasture agriculture are included, it has been estimated that nitrogen production by biological fertilizers still exceeds chemical application.

This effect has greatly reduced the value of the vegetation as rangeland.

When irrigated, vertisols are highly productive for growing cotton and corn (maize) and for use as rangeland.

The Irish agriculture minister, Simon Coveney, said he had instructed the police to join an inquiry conducted by his department's special investigation unit after tests this week confirmed 75 percent equine DNA in a raw material ingredient at the Rangeland Foods processing plant in County Monaghan.