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  2. Beef cattle - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Cow–calf operation - Wikipedia

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    Cow–calf operations are widespread throughout beef-producing countries, [5] and the goal of a cow–calf operation is to produce young beef cattle, which are usually sold. True to the name, farm and ranch herds consist mostly of adult female cows, their calves, and young females, called heifers, which will produce calves once of breeding age.

  4. Cattle feeding - Wikipedia

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    The cattle industry takes the position that the use of growth hormones allows plentiful meats to be sold for affordable prices. [24] Using hormones in beef cattle costs $1.50 and adds between 40 and 50 lb (18 and 23 kg) to the weight of a steer at slaughter, for a return of at least $25. [25]

  5. List of cattle terminology - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Agriculture in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The practices associated with keeping livestock also contributed to the deterioration of the forests and fields. Colonists would cut down the trees and then allow their cattle and livestock to graze freely in the forest and never plant more trees. The animals trampled and tore up the ground so much as to cause long-term destruction and damage. [5]

  7. Animal husbandry - Wikipedia

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    Cattle feedlot in Colorado, United States. Animal husbandry is the branch of agriculture concerned with animals that are raised for meat, fibre, milk, or other products.It includes day-to-day care, management, production, nutrition, selective breeding, and the raising of livestock.

  8. Advanced meat recovery - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, USDA regulations stipulate that AMR machinery cannot grind, crush, or pulverize bones to remove edible meat tissue, and bones must emerge intact. The meat produced in this manner can contain no more than 150(±30) milligrams of calcium per 100 grams product, [5] as calcium in such high concentrations in the product would be indicative of bone being mixed with the meat.

  9. Australian Charbray - Wikipedia

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    The gross value of the Australian cattle and calf production totalled $14.3billion in 2015–16, which is approximately 50% of total value of Australian livestock industries. [6] A regional report on the Northern Australian beef industry indicates that by 1996–97, 10% of the North-West herd were Charbray out of the 23 different bull breeds. [12]