Grass, or forage, is far more efficient at capturing these sunbeams than shrubs or trees. Think about grass. It’s like an expressway. Almost no branches. Shrubs and trees are a network of branches. Things have to slow down to make those turns. If you really want to build soil, you do it with grass. But grass has a high metabolism; it grows fast and then dies. The herbivore is what prunes it back as it approaches senescence,
