Sentences with phrase «rotational grazing»

Any setback should take into account stocking rates and rotational grazing practices undertaken by most small - scale regenerative farmers.

Melissa Boutwell, the rancher, practices rotational grazing with the deliberate precision of an industrial process engineer.

This is done by adding compost on pasture to increase soil health, planting wind breaks and hedge rows to reduce soil erosion, planned rotational grazing of animals to best manage pasture health, and planting perennial grasses to increase underground root systems.

Use preventive measures, such as rotational grazing, a balanced diet and clean housing, to help minimize disease

Promoting soil health through rotational grazing: Cows are moved to different pastures every few days which improves pasture productivity, stimulates plant growth, allows the pastures time to regrow and produce more nourishing grasses.

Consequently, the profession has attempted to answer a broad, complex question — whether or not managers should adopt rotational grazing — with necessarily narrow experimental research focused exclusively on ecological processes.

But, we recognize that many household - level operations do not keep livestock or have sufficient space for rotational grazing.

Higher intensity rotational grazing, emulating the rest and recovery periods of migratory herbivores.

The criticism of rotational grazing is not so much that it doesn't work but that it is not the only strategy for maintaining viable grasslands.

Examples include later grazing, rotational grazing with parts of semi-natural grasslands grazed only in late summer in some years, and careful choice of grazers.

A planned rotational grazing of the cows supports plant growth in carbon farming practices.

Higher organic matter, better nutrition, and rotational grazing practices allow for healthier plants and more vegetative biodiversity.

Since the initiative was launched, its scope has broadened to include improved land management practices such as rotational grazing.

Their standards for quality are ridiculously tight - only grass fed cows, no antibiotics, rotational grazing... everything I look for in quality meat.

It has been proven, globally, that animals raised in a pastured environment, with rotational grazing and mobile infrastructure, create none of the issues or risks that the proposed legislation seeks to mitigate.»

«Some of these practices include the use of manure and legume cover crops, extended crop rotations, fallowing and rotational grazing.

While working toward Rainforest Alliance certification, CATIE planted more grazing pastures of more digestible grasses, began using organic fertilizers and implemented a rotational grazing pasture system to reduce land degradation.

Organic livestock must be antibiotic - free, and are protected from disease and parasites by a range of methods, including sanitary conditions, a balanced diet and rotational grazing.

rotational grazing: this promotes pasture growth, when grass grows from low initial cover it draws on root reserves to promote leaf, set stocking will result in cattle preferentially grazing this fresher leaf rather than the older, lower quality, leaf, this will slow pasture recovery and lower leaf production.

Despite this overall decline, a variety of farming techniques including compost application, rotational grazing, and low tillage have begun to emerge and offer ways to enhance the natural soil carbon sink.

It uses techniques such as agroforestry, crop rotation, and rotational grazing, while excluding pesticides and factory farming.

Carbon farming is the umbrella term used to describe agricultural processes that sequester more carbon than they generate — i.e. produce net - negative carbon emissions — and can include: conservation tillage, cover cropping, crop rotation, compost application, and rotational grazing.

A planned rotational grazing of the cows supports plant growth in carbon farming practices.