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Rotational grazing

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Rotational grazing

This domestic goat has grazed in a circle around its tethering rope. Goats can be used to clean up areas of rough grass if they are well managed and moved regularly. They will do a good job of cleaning up the vegetable garden too if they get loose!

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1983/4221/17

by Ross Giblin

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Allan Gillingham, Goats and goat farming – Farming goats for weed control and milk, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/16591/rotational-grazing (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Allan Gillingham, published 1 March 2009.