Sentences with phrase «fattening cattle»

Formerly arid lands in the Argentine midwest are now producing grain and fattening cattle, while an extensive arid bushland known to locals as «The Impenetrable» has now been extensively penetrated by soybeans and other crops.

Today, with little room for expanding the output from rangelands and the seas, producing more beef and fish for a growing and increasingly affluent world population has meant relying on feedlots for fattening cattle and on ponds, nets, and pens for growing fish.

The grasses, knee - high with bursts of clover flowers and flat, slender leaves, are cut, baled and shipped to feedlots where they fatten cattle soon to be slaughtered for beef.

It's a cheap, mass - produced type of corn that's used as livestock feed to fatten cattle for market.

Corn fattens the cattle, but consumers don't like all that gristly fat, so hormones are used to make the animal produce more lean muscle tissue.

Farmers in America discovered this early last century when they tried to fatten their cattle by feeding them coconut oil.

He plans to use to the money to buy and fatten cattle, turn a profit and repay the loan.

Not exact matches

In the beef industry, cattle born in one country are often fattened across the border before returning home to be turned into cuts of meat destined for grocery stores.

Montana rancher Fred Wacker had thousands of head of cattle fattening up along the Yellowstone River for export to China when President Donald Trump picked a trade fight with the Asian nation.

Mr Marzato, who fattens 300 - 350 cattle on «Wyeworriee» for a major supermarket, sold the property within six weeks using online selling platform BuyMyPlace.com.au.

This should also improve the profitability of Chinese importers as they will be able to buy lighter cattle and fatten them up.

Mr Meares said the purchase of the well managed and developed property was a further example of vertical integration of breeding and fattening enterprises in the cattle industry.

Hancock Prospecting's wagyu production is built around breeding and growing cattle in NSW and then fattening and processing them in Queensland.

Some vendors who advertise grass - fed beef have been known to feed their cattle grain before the kill to fatten them up, she warns.

At Edington Mains, Clark keeps up to 2,000 sheep, including Suffolk, Oxford and Border Leicester purebreds, assorted cattle to fatten for slaughter, and he grows beets for feed and grain for cash.

The pitch black cattle, blending into their muddy surroundings and stretching as far as the eye can see, are being fattened up for the Japanese market where marbled Angus beef is in high demand.

Pediatrician Barbara Cromer of Case Western Reserve University notes that many pesticides and plastics contain synthetic estrogens, and that cattle fattened with estrogen have up to five times as much of it in their tissue as do untreated cattle.

Ranchers have been fattening up cattle with sex hormones — most notably estrogen — since the 1950s.

When cattle are taken off omega - 3 rich grass and shipped to a feedlot to be fattened on omega - 3 poor grain, they begin losing their store of this beneficial fat as one would suspect.

But labeling won't help the increasing numbers of people who are starting to react to the flesh of fish, poultry, lamb or cattle that were fattened on soy feed and to eggs laid by soy fed chickens.

Grain from mature grass was an adjunct in animal diets, given to chickens to induce more frequent laying and to cattle to fatten them just before butchering.

Indeed, corn's weight - promoting property is highly prized in animal husbandry where it is used to fatten up cattle before slaughter.

Grains are used to fatten up cattle, and I don't want to look like I'm living on the feedlot.

In contrast, meat from cattle fattened predominately on ryegrass has almost double the beta - carotene, 87 micrograms in 3.5 ounces of ground beef and 64 micrograms in a steak.

Readers are in control now, they are human, and they expect to be treated decently (not as cattle to be fattened and then slaughtered).

Since wildlife feeds on vegetation, the wolves get the carbohydrates and fiber they need plus the protein without the added fat that we humans love in grain - fed cattle (to fatten them up).