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Share Paddock-level management and farm structure were key drivers in the quality of grasslands in the German study, not socio-economic factors. Photo by Cole Parrant Part-time farmers who keep horses sometimes get knocked for the quality of their pasture. Is the criticism justified? Do full-time farmers who keep horses have richer and more diverse grassland? Researchers in Germany have delved into socio-economic factors to learn what bearings they have on pasture on farms with horses. Their findings, reported in the journal Sustainability, surprised them. Cecilia Frauke Hüppe and her fellow researchers at the University of Göttingen thought that differences in income type (part-time or full-time farmers) and agricultural education would affect the characteristics of vegetation on the 122 farms they investigated. ....