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Prevent Pasture Overgrazing

A thriving pasture is how you supplement your horse’s diet (and your wallet), provide your horse with extra legroom during the warm months, and maintain your property. The only problem is that without proper management, that wellspring of benefit can quickly dry up from overgrazing.

Pasture 101

Most pastures are seeded with cool-season grasses, the benefit being that

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