“But the most valued is that of agistment or pasturage, especially of ponies.”
“Along the coast and Tablelands country, huge numbers of southern cattle are being sent away north on agistment, as there's no feed and little prospect of any until spring.”
“We suggest that any party that enters into an agistment arrangement, thinks very hard about a number of factors.”
agistor
One who agists or takes in cattle to pasture at a certain rate; a pasturer.
(historical) an officer of the king's forest, who had the care of cattle agisted, and collected the money for the same; hence called gisttaker, which in England is corrupted into guest-taker.
“The agister lien provides a legal remedy for any agister who is not paid by the owner of an animal.”
“Come to an arrangement regarding the point at which the agister decides to call a vet.”
“He met with our Head Agister and our Grazing Scheme Administrator and was very impressed by the way the HLS is managed in such a unique place as The New Forest.”
