Sentences with phrase «cattle graze on»

If we stopped letting cattle graze on federal land and allowed the vegetation there to naturally regrow, we'd save on emissions from lowered beef production and increase the capacity of the land to serve as a carbon sink.
The sunset blazes orange, cattle graze on yucca flowers, prairie grasses wave serenely toward the horizon.
Cattle graze on endless ranch lands to the right; paniolos on horseback guide dude riders across high desert to the left.
Kawauchi writes: «Through 1,300 years of field burning, human ritual has sustained a beautiful meadow, which cattle graze on, and people in turn receive a bounty from the cattle — an interconnected chain.
Their cattle graze on «compost - treated rangeland» that helps promote the growth of perennial grasses.
For the majority of their lives our Black Angus cattle graze on lush pasture land throughout the mid-west.
Long story short, on a drive to take his cousin somewhere, they come across a beautiful scene of cattle grazing on a hillside with the sun setting in the background.
The best approach, he and others say, is to allow moderate bison or cattle grazing on healthy prairies and track how the ecosystems respond.
Bundy and 16 other defendants face 16 felony counts in connection with a 2014 armed standoff with federal agents over cattle grazing on federal land east of Las Vegas.

Not exact matches

The amount of land involved is considerable: 2 million acres in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta; over 200,000 cattle grazed; 3,100 cattle producers who pay to graze their cattle on this land.
The scene before my eyes was a stark contrast to the start of my journey: narrow country lanes, cattle grazing in fields, farm after farm, tractors on the road and dainty villages seemed to be the norm in West Sussex.
The cattle used to produce Harris Ranch beef spend approximately 80 % of the time grazing on western ranches before arriving at Harris Feeding Company in Central California at 16 - 24 months of age.
The cattle used to produce Harris Ranch beef typically spend the majority of their lives grazing on grass.
We call on Minister for Agriculture Jaala Pulford and Minister for Planning Richard Wynne to explain why small - scale pastured pig and poultry farms are to be subjected to greater scrutiny and compliance costs than cattle feedlots, instead of being treated under the law like other grazing systems that rely on supplemental feed such as the majority of Victorian beef and dairy cattle.
These calves are shown on the Grazed Right cattle ranch near Black Diamond, Alta., in 2016.
Harris Ranch's beef cattle spend about 80 % of their lives grazing on western ranch lands before being finished on a nutritionally balanced diet of corn and other feed grains, plus alfalfa hay, vitamins and minerals.
Dr. Cottam, former assistant director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, already has proved through experiments in Utah that grazing on a grass - percentage basis results in the production of more cattle.
Apart from their activities of grazing their cattle on farm land and forest reserves, the herdsmen are also alleged to be into all sorts of crimes including armed robbery, rape, Stealing, burning of farms and worst of it all, killing of farmers».
The Speaker, Ekiti House of Assembly, Mr Kola Oluwawole, said on Friday that members passed the bill controlling cattle grazing in order to safeguard the lives and property of the residents.
Bello Bodejo, the National President of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association who said the cause of the attacks on Benue State was because the State enacted Anti-Open Grazing law.
On conflicts between farmers and herdsmen, President Buhari said that a plan to map out grazing areas will soon be presented to the Nigerian Governors Forum as a temporary solution to the frequent conflicts until cattle owners are persuaded to adopt other means of rearing their cattle.
«We are calling on foreigners who came from other parts of the world to graze their cattle on our lands to go back and allow the traditional Fulani herders who have lived with us for many years to remain.
Ahead of November 1 deadline for the implementation of anti grazing bill in Benue State, the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN, has appealed to the federal government to prevail on the Benue State government to extend the implementation date.
The statement said, «The state government should prepare a bill to be sent to the state House of Assembly for consideration against the indiscriminate grazing of cattle on our farmlands to curtail this widespread evil by the herdsmen in Ondo State.»
The anti-open grazing law enacted by the Benue State Government recently has forced massive movement of Fulani herdsmen and their cattle into parts of Awe, Keana and Obi local government areas of Nasarawa State, UMAR MUHAMMED takes a look on how the massive migration is affecting farmers
«Any Fulani cattle rearer found grazing his cows on farms would pay N1m fine or serve a five - year prison sentence,» Hussein stated.
Fayose had, while signing the «prohibition of cattle and other Ruminants Grazing in Ekiti 2016» into law on Monday, said any herdsman, caught with any form of weapons while grazing his cattle in any part of the state, would be arrested and charged with terGrazing in Ekiti 2016» into law on Monday, said any herdsman, caught with any form of weapons while grazing his cattle in any part of the state, would be arrested and charged with tergrazing his cattle in any part of the state, would be arrested and charged with terrorism.
They, therefore, urged the government and the relevant security agencies to prevail on herdsmen leading cattle to graze in the area to desist from destroying their farmlands.
Four days ago on Monday April 25, 2016 many of our brothers and sisters in Nimbo in Uzo Uwani Local Government Area of the state were murdered in cold blood by suspected Fulani herdsmen who have been grazing their cattle in that area for a while now.
At issue is the right of the nomadic herdsmen to graze their cattle, which invariably infringes on the right of the farmers to plant and harvest their crops.
«My interest lies in helping people use and benefit from the resources on which their livelihood depends, from the fruit trees in the fields to the rangelands where cattle graze or the plants that provide food and medicine,» she says.
In some regions, greening could be caused by species change, with greener invasive plants replacing indigenous ones or bushes encroaching on grasslands that are used to graze cattle, Wang said.
Likewise, the same environmental benefits could be seen on the cow - calf system providing cattle for the feedlot, matching greater production per unit land with the environmental benefits of grazing, he added.
Here, in preparation for cattle grazing every spring, dried grass on the caldera is burnt, maintaining the area as a grassland.
Cattle stand nearly motionless as they graze on the thin grass, which grows slowly in the dry heat and high altitude.
«Grasses don't fare as well as shrubs, which is really important to know because cattle ranchers depend on grasslands to graze their herds.
An area near Acre, Brazil, shows the progression of forest to grazing land on a large cattle ranch: intact forest (left), forest being burned to make pasture (top), newly cleared forest (bottom) and grass ready to graze (right).
A freezing rain, followed by an avalanche of four feet of snow and winds of 70 miles an hour, hit thousands of cattle still grazing on «summer pastures» at a time when the animals had not yet grown their protective winter coats and were ill prepared for the harsh conditions.
For cattle, 22 years and more than 36,000 fecal measurements suggest that plants on U.S. grazing lands have grown poorer in protein, ecologist Joseph Craine of Jonah Ventures, in Boulder, Colo., and colleagues reported April 10 in Environmental Research Letters.
Only after Lammas Day are cattle from surrounding farms, which have common rights, allowed to graze on the meadows.
Other suspected causes include sewage from resorts on the islands and coast and excessive grazing by cattle in the outback, which may have loosened the topsoil, allowing it to be washed down the rivers to the coast, along with the nitrates and phosphates bonded to it.
Three university professors have written a book called Seven Popular Myths about Livestock Grazing on Public Lands, which debunks all claims that cattle harm the environment.
All cattle graze freely on natural grasslands and are totally grass fed, with no supplement feed.
The Great Lakes website states, «Ranchers in Argentina and Brazil have traditionally raised cattle in herds that graze freely on the natural grasslands.
But this is not to say that a very small portion of one's diet couldn't derive from these sources — the same if one happens to live on or near a small farm or in an area where cattle grazing makes economic sense.
I like the Vital Proteins brand because they use bovine hides made from cattle that graze on pasture and are not treated with hormones, steroids, or antibiotics.
Controlling internal parasites in grazing cattle has a significant positive return on investment; in most cases greater than any other management practice.
In fact, studies have shown that infective larvae were able to survive on Minnesota pastures during winter months.2 «Parasites require grass and cattle to complete their life cycle, therefore if cattle have been grazing on grass, you can be almost certain they have parasites,» says Gary Sides, cattle nutritionist with Pfizer Animal Health Veterinary Operations.
They should not be prevented from eating the droppings of grass - fed cattle and horses, from which they can get many vital elements derived from the herbage on which the animals have grazed and in a form easily assimilated by the dog.»
This name was given to the site because when the researchers first started to work on it, it was the setting of a cattle grazing field and naturally, the ticks.
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