Sentences with word «feedlot»

CPC is already well invested in feedlots in Indonesia and is making plans to invest further as the population of such countries grows.

Singapore - based Pardoo Beef Corporation, run by Bruce Cheung, purchased the 198,000 hectare Pardoo Station for $ 13.5 million earlier this month while other major operators such as Great Giant Livestock Co, the second - largest cattle feedlot in Indonesia, and Japfa, also known as Santori, spent a combined $ 50 million buying cattle stations in the far north.

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.

Avoid meat from feedlots where animals are treated with antibiotics.

Since the meat - cutters have been trained on feedlot beef, they prefer selling it and frequently discourage the customer from purchasing grass - fed.

Fertilizers running off of vast agricultural fields and animal feedlots in the former Soviet Union were a primary cause.

David McCall from DairyNZ said large - scale farms with feedlots of up to 30,000 cows makes for a much...

They are also bred for working cattle rather than sheep, and not as feedlot dogs but as dogs on large spreads.

* As a response to the planetary economics of food production: «It takes 2,500 gallons of water, 12 pounds of grain, 35 pounds of topsoil and the energy equivalent of one gallon of gasoline to produce one pound of feedlot beef.»

In addition, grass fed beef contains a much better ratio of omega - 3 to omega - 6 fatty acids compared with typical grain - fed beef sold at most stores (which comes from factory feedlot farms notorious for unhealthy cattle and inferior nutrition in the beef compared to grass - fed beef.)

One of the most important challenges facing feedlot operators, and the consulting veterinarians who service them, is the development of on - arrival strategies to maximize health in the most economic fashion.

So, upwards of 40 percent of the corn crop goes into feedlots to fatten livestock for meat, milk, and eggs.

Specifically under fire are concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, the large - scale feedlots where thousands of dairy cattle, poultry and pigs are confined for their entire lives.

An annual $ 3.6 - million congressional appropriation supports the research, ranging from irrigation techniques and precipitation management to animal feedlot operations.

Working through committees are bills that would stop the common feedlot practice of feeding antibiotics to food animals that aren't sick, prevent felons convicted of animal cruelty from owning animals for a court - ordered period and require the neutering of unlicensed dogs and cats to reduce euthanasia.

The resulting beef is chewier, contains less fat, it's rich in heart - healthy Omega - 3 fatty acids, and the flavor is more varied than the typical grocery store cuts of beef that come from corn - raised feedlot cows.

The ever - optimistic Ohio farmer Gene Logsdon, for instance, makes a persuasive case for returning to grass - feeding steers, hogs, chicken, dairy cows and sheep instead of the concentrated feedlot farming favored by industrial agribusiness.

Although it seems like a healthier choice, eating farmed fish is actually almost as bad as eating a fast food burger from commercial feedlot grain - fed beef.

In the US, all beef cattle begin their lives grazing on grass, but most are «finished» on grain — largely corn — in industrial feedlots known as CAFOs (confined animal feeding operations).

Cows are fed mostly corn in factory feedlot farms, even though their digestive systems are only meant to eat grass and other forage.

This issue doesn't bother me at all; I've been to feedlots before and seen how the animals are treated, the conditions, and so on.

Kidman is Australia's biggest private landholder and operates 10 cattle stations, a stud farm, and feedlot covering more than 100,000 square kilometres.

Three generations came together as Kerwee Group celebrated 60 years on the Darling Downs with its official opening of their expanded feedlot on Tuesday night.

It's a very similar comparison to commercial feedlot grain - fed beef vs grass - fed free range beef or wild game.

Stretching across miles of pastures and feedlots north of Greeley, Colo., the complex is home to more than 15,000 cows, making it more than 100 times the size of a typical organic herd.

Kerwee Feedlot manager Steve Martin entertains the crowd during the Diamond Jubilee celebrations.

Today it is one of the top eight meat processors in the country, one of the top ten in the beef feedlot business, and one of the top 20 private landholders in the country.

Grand Champion Prime Beast of Warwick Show was awarded to a Limousin heifer finished on grain at Risdon Park Feedlot.

Operational improvements comprise an undercover sheep feedlot for up to 8000 lambs, eight stand shearing shed, about 750 tonnes of grain storage, numerous sets of sheep and cattle yards and various machinery, hay and storage sheds.

Harmony Agriculture and Food Company, the owner of the Dundonnell - district property, Mount Fyans, has expanded its footprint on Western Victoria, taking over the operating control of a major feedlot facility near Dimboola.

Such strengthening should focus on potential high impact operations, such as large - scale feedlots, broiler sheds, and indoor piggeries.

Fast - tracking safeguards in Indonesia is also the only way to help the tens of thousands of animals currently in Indonesian feedlots who are being, and will continue to be, treated in exactly the same way as the poor animals we saw on Four Corners three weeks ago.

Within the Australian Agricultural Environments regions, the average age of livestock entering feedlots varied from 7 months in the Wheatbelt East region to 19 months in the Semi Arid region.

Tasmania Feedlot Pty Ltd in Powranna is home to between 6,000 and 11,000 Angus cattle all year round.

But feedlot systems are notorious for producing hydrogen sulfide and polluting waterways with animal waste, ammonia, pathogens, and antibiotics.

The Envest Loan is to purchase shares in an ag processing plant intended to process North Dakota products or for the purchase of equity shares in a North Dakota feedlot or dairy operation that feeds a byproduct of an ethanol or biodiesel facility.

In the artist's recent Oil Fields and Feedlots series (2013 - 14), large - scale photographic prints reminiscent of vast Abstract Expressionist canvases represent landscapes carved by industries meeting extraordinary levels of consumer demand for two of North America's most prized commodities: oil and beef.

The $ 300 million Stanbroke operates eight properties across about 1.6 million hectares in north Queensland and has a 30,000 head feedlot south - west of Chinchilla.

In a study published in the journal Agricultural Systems, Michigan State University scientists evaluated adaptive multi-paddock, or AMP, grass fed operations as well as grain - fed, feedlot herds.

Ag PACE provides interest buydown on loans to farmers who invest in nontraditional agriculture activities that supplement farm income such as purchase of equipment and facilities, equity shares of an ag - processing business, irrigation equipment, capital improvements to a livestock feedlot, dairy operation or subsurface field tiling projects.

Of course Mark's exhortations on evaluating quality sources apply — I don't do feedlot meat raw.

ie - synthetic growth hormones, toxins in feedlot feeds (see Monensin and Glyphosate as well as nitrates) exiting in the milk, ultrapasteurization, loss of cream (fat) top, and etc?