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Game for students to teach rotational grazing, or showing how selective grazing vs rotational works

 
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Hi,
does anyone of you know of a game which can be played with students to show how selective grazing works? Or which shows rotational grazing?

Thanks for any ideas
 
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This looks like fun:

https://discoverwestman.com/articles/guardians-of-the-grasslands-game-teaches-students-about-the-role-cattle-play-in-protecting-a-key-resource
 
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Thanks Anne for the game.
It did not work out for me, I somehow could not move the cattle. I think this might be a good game for children, but maybe not for young adults.

I was thinking along some selective grazing, maybe with some food?
 
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My kid has a game called Farthest Frontier where you are a settler, pioneering a new town. It has crop rotation as a big factor of the fertility of the soil. I am not positive about rotational grazing but I pretty sure it factors in to.

It is not a strictly ranching game, there is a LOT of other stuff. It's really cool actually.
 
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Do any of you know of a game mod that can be played with students to show how selective grazing works.
 
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