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Game Info
Basic domestication improvement. Requires Animal Husbandry.
- Constructed on:
- Access:
- Horses strategic resource
- Effect:
- +1
Production Production (Horses and Cattle) - +1 Food Food (Sheep)
- +1 additional Food Food after researching Fertilizer
- +1 Culture Culture with God of the Open Sky Religious belief
- +1 Production Production with Hunnic Unique Ability
- +1
Strategy
The Pasture improves Sheep and Cattle and allows you to connect Horses to your strategic resource network. In addition to allowing you to field mounted units, it improves the growth rate and production of nearby cities (especially for the Huns).
Historical Info
Pasture is fenced-off land used for grazing. Pasture lands in the narrow sense are enclosed tracts of farmland, grazed by domesticated livestock, such as horses, cattle, sheep or swine. Pasture is typically grazed throughout the summer, in contrast to meadow which is used for grazing only after being mown to make hay for winter fodder. Pasture in a wider sense additionally includes rangelands, other unenclosed pastoral systems, and land types used by wild animals for grazing or browsing.
Prior to the advent of factory farming with its use of "zero-grazing" feeding techniques, pasture was the primary source of food for grazing animals such as cattle and horses. It is still used extensively, particularly in arid regions where pasture land is unsuitable for any other agricultural production. In more humid regions, pasture grazing is exploited extensively for free range and organic farming. It is an important biotic resource.
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A pasture in Civilization V.