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The Pastures Historic District is a residential neighborhood located south of downtown Albany, New York, United States. Its 17 acres (6.9 ha) include all or part of a 13-block area. It was originally an area set aside as communal pasture by Albany's city council in the late 17th century and deeded to the Dutch Reformed Church.
He raised livestock, including cattle, horses, poultry and pigs. Craver Farmstead produce included butter, eggs, pork, and cider. In 1874, on only 90 acres of improved farmland, Craver had grown 16 acres of oats, 4 of Indian corn, 16 of winter rye, and 8 of potatoes, which yielded 400 bushels of oats, 75 of corn, 190 of rye, and 750 of potatoes.
The only actual "cattle drives" held on Long Island consisted of one drive in 1776, when the island's cattle were moved in a failed attempt to prevent them from being captured during the Revolutionary War, and three or four drives in the late 1930s, when area cattle were herded down Montauk Highway to pasture ground near Deep Hollow Ranch.
Barn C on Dalmeny Road in front of the Briarcliff Lodge, [1]: 23 one of four cattle barns on the farm. Briarcliff Farms was a farm established in 1890 by Walter William Law in Briarcliff Manor, a village in Westchester County, New York.
Convertible husbandry was a process that consisted of keeping arable land fallow for long periods as pasture for livestock. [2] This system utilized fertilizer in the form of animal manure. Fertilizer was used in greater quantities due to the increase in animal husbandry and resulted in benefiting crop yields when it was time for tillage. [5]
Pablo de Olavide and Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos both proposed selling disused solars: uncultivated and uninhabited municipal lands that were generally used as pasture for cattle. Olavide viewed the protection given to livestock as a cause of agricultural backwardness and argued that "all the lands should be put to work".
Rotational grazing of cattle and sheep in Missouri with pasture divided into paddocks, each grazed in turn for a period and then rested. In rotational grazing livestock are moved to portions of the pasture, called paddocks, while the other portions rest. [2] The intent is to allow the pasture plants and soil time to recover. [2]
In Australia, agistment is commonly used during times of drought; livestock from a drought-affected property can be agisted on a drought-free property elsewhere in the country. The livestock may travel to the alternate pasture by truck or by travelling stock route. Agistment can also refer, in both Australia and New Zealand, to places such as ...