What is rotational grazing?

Rotational grazing is a sustainable management practice where livestock are moved between different pastures or grazing areas. This technique helps to prevent overgrazing in a single area, allowing for improved forage quality and land health. By rotating the grazing sites, grasses and other forage plants have the opportunity to recover and regenerate, which leads to healthier ecosystems. Additionally, this movement reduces soil compaction and erosion, enhances biodiversity, and can improve water retention in the soil.

The other options describe practices that do not align with the principles of rotational grazing. Intensive feeding in confinement does not allow animals to graze naturally, and keeping livestock in one pasture year-round can degrade that pasture over time, depleting forage resources and harming land health. Finally, enhancing soil nutrient levels through artificial means does not reflect the natural benefits gained from rotational grazing, which relies on the interplay between livestock management and ecological processes.