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For example, using UK government Livestock Units (LUs) from the 2003 scheme [1] a particular 10 ha (25-acre) pasture field might be able to support 15 adult cattle or 25 horses or 100 sheep: in that scheme each of these would be regarded as being 15 LUs, or 1.5 LUs per hectare (about 0.6 LUs per acre).
The standards dictate a maximum outdoor density of 1500 per hectare without rotation, or 2500 birds per hectare with rotation, and beak trimming is allowed. [ 29 ] Free Range Egg & Poultry Australia (FREPA) standards provides a sliding scale for indoor density, with 10 birds per square metre allowed only in enclosures housing less than 1000 ...
The RSPCA "Welfare standards for laying hens and pullets" indicates that the stocking rate must not exceed 1,000 birds per hectare (10 m 2 per hen) of range available and a minimum area of overhead shade/shelter of 8 m 2 per 1,000 hens must be provided. Free-range farming of egg-laying hens is increasing its share of the market.
Crop kg oil/ha/yr litres oil/ha lbs oil/acre US gal/acre Coldest hardiness zone. Warmest hardiness zone maize (corn) : 147 172 129 18 3 11 cashew nut: 148 176 132
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Less profitable then intensive farming per unit of area. Extensive farming was once thought to produce more methane and nitrous oxide per kg of milk than intensive farming. [4] One study estimated that the carbon "footprint" per billion kg (2.2 billion lb.) of milk produced in 2007 was 37 percent that of equivalent milk production in 1944. [5]
Eggs are being confiscated at the U.S. border with Mexico amid a bird flu outbreak that has depleted chicken ... agricultural products may "range up to $1,000 per first-time offense for ...