Now it is a cattle pasture.
Regularly at daybreak they drive their herds to the pasture.
This, it turns out, is the best means yet devised for rescuing degraded pasture lands.
If ranching were made more intensive, crops could expand into empty pasture.
Farmers traditionally used long-term rotations of hay, pasture, and corn.
The farmer's land produced enough pasture to feed all of his livestock.
It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.
Then sheep will graze as in their own pasture; lambs will feed among the ruins of the rich.
He waved to me and then walked to the pasture gate to start the morning livestock check.
The locusts had already destroyed thousands of hectares of crops and pasture as of April 14, reported AFP.
But they woke at dawn as usual, and suddenly remembering the glorious thing that had happened they all raced out into the pasture together.
The report notes average pasture and water conditions, allowing Somalis practicing a pastoral livelihood to follow normal livestock migrations where herds can adequately graze.
The high prices for corn - while driving hunger in Africa - have encouraged other farmers to turn over land from wheat, soybeans, or even pasture to corn production.
Then we your people, the sheep of your pasture, will praise you forever; from generation to generation we will recount your praise.
You might think this scenario would tempt plenty of farmers to flip their acres from cattle pasture to cropland. But it's a tough decision that depends on much more than recent prices.
Even smoking had ceased, for a tramp’s only tobacco is picked-up cigarette ends, and, like a browsing beast, he starves if he is long away from the pavement-pasture.
Now then, tell my servant David, 'This is what the Lord Almighty says: I took you from the pasture and from following the flock, to be ruler over my people Israel.
Most of the place names of England had been bestowed not by officialdom, or in deference to knights, earls or Kings, but by ordinary peasants coping with flooded pasture or looking over the hills.
On one of my corn strips, only 12 feet wide and about 400 feet long, there is, half way down one strip, a six inch gully created by a rain so heavy it melted a salt block in the pasture nearby.
