| name | grazing |
| description | Use when livestock consume standing forage in place — grazing on pasture/rangeland, the rotational/managed/adaptive (AMP) move through paddocks (short impact, long recovery), stocking rate and carrying capacity in animal-unit-months. The range-management activity; its rotation reuses the crop rotation atom. |
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grazing — livestock eating standing forage in place
grazing is [[livestock]] consuming standing forage in situ on [[pasture]] or rangeland — the core range-management activity, the animal-shaped alternative to harvested [[fodder]]. Rotational / managed / adaptive multi-paddock (AMP) grazing moves the [[herd]] through paddocks with short impact + long recovery to lift forage and [[soil]] carbon — this is the SAME [[rotation]] atom as crop rotation (method is a field, paddocks ↔ fields), not a parallel concept.
Its constraint is [[capacity]] — the carrying capacity (sustainable stocking rate), measured in animal-unit-months (AUM), a [[measure]] of forage demand the pasture [[leases|lease]] is priced in. Forage utilization (the fraction actually eaten) is the [[throughput]] multiplier. Grazing closes to [[fertility]] via deposited [[manure]] ([[flow]]: the nutrient cycle).
Standards
- USDA-NRCS (carrying capacity & stocking-rate determination); UNL / extension (AUM)
- Savory Institute / AMP grazing science (adaptive multi-paddock); FAO grazing systems
Law — [[law]]: livestock consuming standing forage in place, bounded by carrying [[capacity]] (the stocking rate in AUM); its paddock move is the SAME [[rotation]] atom as crop rotation, and it closes to [[fertility]] via deposited manure.
Composes [[livestock]] · [[pasture]] · [[herd]] · [[rotation]] · [[capacity]] · [[measure]] · [[throughput]] · [[fodder]] · [[manure]] · [[fertility]] · [[soil]] · [[flow]] · [[leases]].
