bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle
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Pasturage \Pas"tur*age\, n. [OF. pasturage, F. p[^a]turage. See {Pasture}.] 1. Grazing ground; grass land used for pasturing; pasture.
2. Grass growing for feed; grazing.
3. The business of feeding or grazing cattle.
Scientists at a Niamey agricultural weather center, set up to monitor conditions in nine Sahel nations after the disastrous 1972-73 drought, report the plentiful rain promises good harvests. Good pasturage is available for cattle, goats, sheep.