And the animals usually avoid their own waste, so that reduces the amount of good grazing space even more.
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According to Shannon Horst, CEO and co-founder of the Savory Institute, ranchers can consistently double, and even quadruple livestock capacity over time. (See an article in TIME for more on the Savory grazing technique).
We ran into bottlenecks in the middle of the countryside that took almost an hour to get past, with little more to look at than grazing sheep and the odd farmhouse.
As you know, the administration has already taken several steps from opening up lands for haying and grazing, to providing emergency loans, to helping get more truck drivers on the roads delivering much needed supplies.