This document discusses posture and pasture lands. It defines posture as land used for grazing by domesticated livestock such as cattle, horses, sheep, or swine. Pasture lands are enclosed tracts of farmland grazed by livestock. The vegetation in pastures consists mainly of grasses and legumes. Pasture lands are distinguished from rangelands by being more intensively managed through practices like seeding, irrigation, and fertilizer use. Factors like soil type, temperature, and rainfall impact pasture management. Unless undergoing factory farming, pasture is the main food source for ruminants grazing livestock.

1. GOOD POSTURE
Posture (from the Latin pastus, past participle
of pascere ”to feed”) is land used forgrazing.
Posture lands in the narrow sense are enclosed
tracts of farmland, grazed by
domesticated livestock, such
as horses, cattle, sheep or swine. The vegetation of
tended posture, forage, consists mainly of grasses,
with an interspersion of legumesand
other forbs (non-grass herbaceous plants). Posture
is typically grazed throughout the summer, in
contrast to meadow which is ungrazed or used for
grazing only after being mown to make hay for
animal fodder. Posture in a wider sense additionally
includes rangelands, other unenclosed pastoral
systems, and land types used by wild animals
for grazing or browsing.
Pasture lands in the narrow sense are distinguished
from rangelands by being managed through more
intensive

2. agricultural practices of seeding, irrigation, and the
use of fertilizers, while rangelands grow primarily
native vegetation, managed with extensive
practices like controlled burning and regulated
intensity of grazing.
Soil type, minimum annual temperature,
and rainfall are important factors in pasture
management. Sheepwalk is an area
of grassland where sheep can roam freely. The
productivity of sheepwalk is measured by the
number of sheep per area. This is dependent,
among other things, on the underlying rock
Sheepwalk is also the name of townlands in County
Roscommon, Ireland and County
Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.
Unless factory farming, which entails in its most
intensive form entirely trough-feeding, managed or
unmanaged posture is the main food source
for ruminants. Posture feeding dominates livestock
farming where the land makes crop sowing and/or
harvesting difficult, such as in arid or mountainous
regions, where types

3. ofcamel, goat, antelope, yak and
other ruminants live which are well suited to the
more hostile terrain and very rarely factory farmed.
In more humid regions, pasture grazing is managed
across a large global area for free range and organic
farming. Certain types of pasture suit the
diet, evolution and metabolism of particular
animals, and their fertilising and tending of the land
may over generations result in the posture
combined with the ruminants in question being
integral to a particular ecosystem.
Hecho por Celia Mata González, Elena Ortiz
Torrijos, Jesús Mata González y Alejandro Ortiz
Giraldo.