*Extensive grazing systems
*Intensive grazing systems
*Intensive landless systems
‘Extensive’ grazing-based system is where they are mainly kept in fields and may be housed for part of the year.
Extensive grazing strategies can be broadly grouped into two main categories:
*Rotational grazing, here the total rangeland is divided into intermittently grazed plots
*Continuous grazing, where animals can freely graze the whole area.
The animals used in extensive grazing regimes are those best adapted to mountainous topography and difficult feeding sources that is meat producing livestock such as cattle, sheep and goats.
Extensive grazing systems cover most the dry areas of the tropics and continental climates of central Asia, North America and western and southern Asia, in areas of low population density.
Seven percent of the world’s global beef production comes from this system and they are associated with larger farms and farmer.
Extensive grazing-based systems
