Key figures for pastures and rangelands

Pastures and rangelands have numerous advantages: they help sustain our countryside, preserve biodiversity, store carbon, fight climate change, enhance our land, and, of course, provide sustainable food for our herbivores and milk and meat, which is both healthy and meets citizen expectations.

Grass is a key element of ruminant livestock rearing systems, as well as being the most obvious and natural food resource for cattle, sheep and goats. It is also the most economical food resource to produce, in terms of mechanization and input costs. And it has excellent nutritional advantages!

Both pastures and rangelands harbour unsuspected riches. In order to highlight this wealth, the French Livestock Institute, the RMT Avenirs Prairies, Cap Protéines and the UMT Pasto have put together some key figures in this collection.