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Pastoral Farming (Also Known in Some Regions As Livestock Farming or Grazing) Is A Form

Pastoral farming focuses on raising livestock rather than growing crops. It involves raising animals like cattle, sheep, and dairy cows through grazing. Mixed farming incorporates both livestock and crops on the same farm, with some farmers growing fodder crops to feed their animals. Pastoral farmers, also called graziers, own land for their livestock to graze on permanently rather than moving between areas, allowing them to improve the land through drainage, water tanks, irrigation, and clover planting.

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Pastoral Farming (Also Known in Some Regions As Livestock Farming or Grazing) Is A Form

Pastoral farming focuses on raising livestock rather than growing crops. It involves raising animals like cattle, sheep, and dairy cows through grazing. Mixed farming incorporates both livestock and crops on the same farm, with some farmers growing fodder crops to feed their animals. Pastoral farmers, also called graziers, own land for their livestock to graze on permanently rather than moving between areas, allowing them to improve the land through drainage, water tanks, irrigation, and clover planting.

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Pastoral farming (also known in some regions as livestock farming or grazing) is a form

of agriculture aimed at producing livestock, rather than growing crops. Examples include dairy
farming, raising beef cattle, and raising sheep for wool. In contrast, arable farming concentrates on
crops rather than livestock. Finally,Mixed farming incorporates livestock and crops on a single farm.
Some mixed farmers grow crops purely as fodder for their livestock; some crop farmers grow fodder
and sell it to pastoral farmers.
Pastoral farmers are also known as graziers and in some cases pastoralists. Pastoral farming is a
non-nomadic form of pastoralism in which the livestock farmer has some form of ownership of the
land used, giving the farmer more economic incentive to improve the land. Unlike other pastoral
systems, pastoral farmers are sedentary and do not change locations in search for fresh resources.
Rather, pastoral farmers adjust their pastures to fit the needs of their animals. Improvements
include drainage (in wet regions), stock tanks (in dry regions), irrigation and sowing clover.

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