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  2. Festuca ovina - Wikipedia

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    Sheep's fescue is a densely tufted perennial grass. Its greyish-green leaves are short and bristle-like. The panicles are both slightly feathery and a bit one-sided. It flowers from May until June, and is wind-pollinated. It has no rhizomes. Sheep's fescue is a drought-resistant grass, commonly found on poor, well-drained mineral soil.

  3. Sheep farming - Wikipedia

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    Sheep farming in Namibia (2017). According to the FAOSTAT database of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the top five countries by number of head of sheep (average from 1993 to 2013) were: mainland China (146.5 million head), Australia (101.1 million), India (62.1 million), Iran (51.7 million), and the former Sudan (46.2 million). [2]

  4. Pasture - Wikipedia

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    Pasture lands in the narrow sense are enclosed tracts of farmland, grazed by domesticated livestock, such as horses, cattle, sheep, or swine.The vegetation of tended pasture, forage, consists mainly of grasses, with an interspersion of legumes and other forbs (non-grass herbaceous plants).

  5. Livestock grazing comparison - Wikipedia

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    For example, using UK government Livestock Units (LUs) from the 2003 scheme [1] a particular 10 ha (25-acre) pasture field might be able to support 15 adult cattle or 25 horses or 100 sheep: in that scheme each of these would be regarded as being 15 LUs, or 1.5 LUs per hectare (about 0.6 LUs per acre).

  6. Urochloa brizantha - Wikipedia

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    Urochloa brizantha (syn. Brachiaria brizantha) is a species of grass known by the common name palisade grass.It is often used as a forage for livestock.Other common names include palisade signal grass, bread grass, [1] Mauritius grass, [2] Surinam grass, [3] large-seeded millet grass, big ashama, [4] Ceylon sheep grass, and St. Lucia grass.

  7. Silvopasture - Wikipedia

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    Forfeited pasture was a constraint for planting for about half (48%) of respondents, while 27% considered thinning a means to expand pasture acres. Some of the most common challenges and barriers to silvopasture adoption include policy and regulatory hurdles, land tenure, lack of knowledge and awareness, economic constraint and cultural change.