How America Uses Its Land

Re:How America Uses Its Land by insensible on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @01:00PM (#17664409)

We can simulate buffalo mob grazing with "managed intensive grazing": many cows in a small area for about a day, then they move. In addition to what you said, it manures the land quite evenly. The grass can stay in its fastest-growing "adolescent" stage. Builds topsoil quickly and sequesters unbelievable amounts of carbon. (This is not how most beef is raised.)

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Re:How America Uses Its Land by yellowapple on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @09:34PM (#17668622)

"This is not how most beef is raised."

It's how most beef should be raised, though, IMO.

Unfortunately, if we were to take all the cows stuck in factory farms and turn them loose on BLM land, I somehow doubt there would be enough food out there for them.

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Re:How America Uses Its Land by insensible on Thursday August 02, 2018 @01:52PM (#17673683)

Grass-feed cattle farmers tell me it takes almost exactly the same amount of land to graze cows as it does to grow the grain to feed them in a feedlot, so that would be a direction to look: replacing grain farming with ecological grazing.

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