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What is an agistment?

What is an agistment? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The taking in by any one of other people's livestock to graze at a certain rate.
  2. A charge or rate against lands
  3. (historical) The taking and feeding of other people's cattle in the king's forests; the price paid for such a feeding.
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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.
But the most valued is that of agistment or pasturage, especially of ponies.
An outbreak of Akabane-induced abnormalities in calves after agistment in an endemic region.
If you're already a rider or a worker in horse agistment, this is a great start.
Cattle had to be trucked thousands of kilometres between properties, put on agistment or sold below cost to make ends meet.
In the Middle Ages sheep farming was common with a system of agistment licensing the grazing of livestock as the Inclosure Acts divided up the land.

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