Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Changes in the U.S. Feedlot Industry
Author: Highlights
Author: Changes in the U.S. Feedlot Industry
Author: Red Meat Republic
Author: Joshua SpechtPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691209189
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
"By the late nineteenth century, Americans rich and poor had come to expect high-quality fresh beef with almost every meal. Beef production in the United States had gone from small-scale, localized operations to a highly centralized industry spanning the country, with cattle bred on ranches in the rural West, slaughtered in Chicago, and consumed in the nation's rapidly growing cities. Red Meat Republic tells the remarkable story of the violent conflict over who would reap the benefits of this new industry and who would bear its heavy costs"--
Feedlot 2011
Author: Economic Impact of Alternative Growth Promotant Strategies on the United States Beef Industry
Author: R. Lynn WilliamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beef
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
This bulletin analyzes economic impacts of alternative growth promotant strategies on the United States (U.S.) beef industry at the cow/calf, stocker, feedlot, wholesale, and retail levels. Production scenarios included implanting at each production level, never implanting, implanting at the cow / calf level only, implanting at the cow / calf and stocker levels, implanting at the feedlot level only, and implanting at the stocker and feedlot levels. The production scenarios were evaluated for the same number of days on feed and feeding to the same slaughter weight. Estimates of the physical effects of alternative implant strategies were obtained by use of the Beef Cattle Growth Model developed at Texas A&M University. Information developed by the model included live, carcass, and retail product weights, carcass fat percentages, feed consumed, and estimated U.S. yield and quality grades by alternative implant scenarios. The study also provides estimates of changes in net returns to producers and cattle feeders and in wholesale and retail gross revenues as implant strategies undergo change.
Alternative Beef Production Systems
Author: Kenneth H. Mathews, Jr.Publisher:
ISBN: 9781457845574
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Beef markets in the U.S. are rapidly changing as alternative production systems and technologies evolve in response to consumer demands and compete with conventional grain-fed beef production. Beef produced through distinguishable systems results in products with different marketable attributes that may attract price premiums, for ex., claims relating to input and other resource use, environental impacts, animal welfare, slaughter/processing infrastructure and efficiencies, and providing continuous supplies of safe products. Markets are rapidly changing as consumers demand various combinations of these attributes in their beef products and as science and consumer knowledge converge. This report explores the market outlook implications of these changes by examining the specific production technologies behind alternative production systems and products. Figures and tables. This is a print on demand report.
Designing Foods
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309037980
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
This lively book examines recent trends in animal product consumption and diet; reviews industry efforts, policies, and programs aimed at improving the nutritional attributes of animal products; and offers suggestions for further research. In addition, the volume reviews dietary and health recommendations from major health organizations and notes specific target levels for nutrients.
Air Emissions from Animal Feeding Operations
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309168643
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Air Emissions from Animal Feeding Operations: Current Knowledge, Future Needs discusses the need for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to implement a new method for estimating the amount of ammonia, nitrous oxide, methane, and other pollutants emitted from livestock and poultry farms, and for determining how these emissions are dispersed in the atmosphere. The committee calls for the EPA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to establish a joint council to coordinate and oversee short - and long-term research to estimate emissions from animal feeding operations accurately and to develop mitigation strategies. Their recommendation was for the joint council to focus its efforts first on those pollutants that pose the greatest risk to the environment and public health.
Changes in the Sheep Industry in the United States
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309121612
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
The U.S. sheep industry is complex, multifaceted, and rooted in history and tradition. The dominant feature of sheep production in the United States, and, thus, the focus of much producer and policy concern, has been the steady decline in sheep and lamb inventories since the mid-1940s. Although often described as "an industry in decline," this report concludes that a better description of the current U.S. sheep industry is "an industry in transition."