Patient crossbreeding created a variety, called braquiarinha in Brazil, which produced 20-25 tonnes of grass feed per hectare, many times what the native cerrado grass produces and three times the yield in Africa.
They sometimes barter, trading milk and cow dung for grass to feed their livestock.
The prairie had to be covered in new spring grass to feed and support your team of oxen.
Ranchers had planned on using the grass to feed cattle... and the fires also destroyed miles of fences that keep the cattle in.
Shrimpers on the Louisiana Gulf Coast are worried about another rite of summer: a strong seasonal incoming tide that is known locally for bringing in nutrients that feed marsh grass.
Too many cattle feed upon the grass and too many fires have burned it.
The US is the world's largest producer of alfalfa, a grass-like plant used as animal feed.
Cows are also jammed together in enormous pens, many of them sick from feed that violates a digestive system built for grass.
Where we want to look is to modern farmers using ecological intelligence, using free energy to produce food grass converting the sun's energy by photosynthesis into feed for an herbivore that we in turn eat.
You get them in grass and they go through the silage maker and into cattle feed.
With grass scarce, hay prices became too costly, forcing some ranchers to feed their cattle a mixture of prickly pear cactus and molasses.
Swans are well known in these parts for their healthy appetite for grass, and the conservation scheme now provides compensation for the extra beaks to feed.
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Grass has been poor and the weather's been poor and the cost of feed has already gone up.
At some of the sites, wide margins of rough grass have been created near nest box sites to ensure the owls have enough voles to feed on.
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