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How can livestock damage soil?

Updated: 9/16/2023
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For starters, animals compact soil, de-aerating it. This couples with the fact that they can strip land of vegetation.Heavy livestock such as cattle compact soil structure and destroy vegetation on parts of the field where they tread most often. The destruction is called "poaching" and is harmful because restoration of the vegetation does not always occur spontaneously once the grazing animals withdrawn.

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