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grazing
thumb|Dairy cows grazing in Germany
In agriculture, grazing is a method of animal husbandry whereby domestic livestock are allowed outdoors to free range (roam around) and consume wild vegetations in order to convert the otherwise indigestible (by human gut) cellulose within grass and other forages into meat, milk, wool and other animal products. Grazing is often done on lands that are unsuitable for arable farming, although there are occasions where arable lands and even prior farmlands are intentionally kept or converted to pastures to raise commercially valuable grazing animals.
conservation grazing
use of grazing animals to restore and maintain threatened biotopes and cultural heritage landscapes
Managed intensive rotational grazing
system of grazing moving animals between paddocks around the year