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Recent Examples of pasturageMeanwhile, many of the same people were evicted from their houses as landowners used the crisis to clear off these human encumbrances and free their fields for more profitable pasturage.—
Fintan O'Toole,
The New Yorker,
10 Mar. 2025 Here in rural Somalia, where about 50% of the people depend on animals for their livelihoods, the locusts are eating the pasturage.—NBC News,
9 Feb. 2020 Except for some lands offering timber or pasturage, the far greater part of the land west of the line was by itself essentially not farmable.—
Johnforristerross,
Longreads,
2 July 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pasturage
pasture
Noun
Back in the pasture, Namgyal moved the herd down the fence line.
—
David Kelly,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Aug. 2026
Other regenerative farming techniques include moving grazing animals around pasture to let the remaining portions recover, and planting trees and shrubs on working agricultural land next to crops or livestock.