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Aug. 23—When farmer Louise Barton was growing up in Lyndhurst and Mentor, she had no idea her retirement job would be raising beef cattle in southern Ohio. Once the environmentalist for Perry ...
Beef cattle are cattle raised for meat production (as distinguished from dairy cattle, used for milk production). The meat of mature or almost mature cattle is mostly known as beef. In beef production there are three main stages: cow-calf operations, backgrounding, and feedlot operations. The production cycle of the animals starts at cow-calf ...
Cattle are domesticated ungulates, a member of the family Bovidae, in the subfamily Bovinae, and descended from the aurochs (Bos primigenius). [55] They are raised as livestock for their flesh (called beef and veal), dairy products (milk), leather and as draught animals. As of 2009–2010 it is estimated that there are 1.3–1.4 billion head of ...
National Beef is the U.S.'s fourth largest beef processor, with sales exceeding $7 billion annually. [15] National Beef products are available to national and regional retailers, including supermarket chains, independent grocers, club stores, wholesalers and distributors, foodservice providers and distributors, further processors and the U.S. military. [16]
Within the American beef cattle industry, the older term beef (plural beeves) is still used to refer to an animal of either sex. Some Australian, Canadian, New Zealand and British people use the term beast. [11] Cattle bred specifically for milk production are called milking or dairy cattle; [1] a cow kept to provide milk for one family may be ...
As organic cattle approach market weight, there are two feeding methods that producers most commonly use to deliver beef products to their customers: “grass-fed” and “grain-fed”. In the “grass-fed” program, the cattle continue to eat certified organic grass right up to the time of slaughter. The USDA is currently developing ...
The Ohio Department of Agriculture confirmed an Ohio cattle herd in Wood County has tested positive for bird flu.The test result is awaiting confirmation from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Now, as Trump enters a second term, anti-fascist activists find themselves facing down a new paradigm, in which they say a leader they already opposed has shifted ever-further toward the far right.