In agriculture, grazing is a method of animal husbandry whereby domestic livestock are allowed outdoors to free range and consume wild vegetation in order to convert the otherwise indigestible cellulo
Dairy cows grazing in Germany
The domestication of ruminants by 7000 BC, like these fat-tailed sheep in Afghanistan, provided nomads across the Middle East and central Asia with a reliable source of food.
The dark green portion of this pasture in New Zealand is fenced off to allow the grass to regrow before it is grazed again.
A Maasai herdsman grazing his cattle inside the Ngorongoro crater
A ranch is an area of land, including various structures, given primarily to ranching, the practice of raising grazing livestock such as cattle and sheep. It is a subtype of farm. These terms are most
Grazing
…many common lands used by peasants for crop farming were enclosed and converted to pastures controlled by gentries to favor wool trades. In modern era, ranching is the more common method of raising grazing livestock, although artificially made feeds such as hay and fodders are sometimes used to supplement…
View of the Grant-Kohrs Ranch near Deer Lodge, Montana, U.S.
Spanish Shepherd on horseback herding sheep in Murcia (1880).
Royal cañada trail through Old Castile (Segovia, Spain)
Atequiza Hacienda in Jalisco, a major hacienda de labor that combined farming and cattle raising. It contained its own theater.