Sentences with phrase «of large livestock»

The same reduction in precipitation would be likely to reduce the income of large livestock farms by about 9 % -LRB--- US$ 5 billion), due to a reduction both in stock numbers and in net revenue per animal.
By contrast, a warming of 2.5 °C would be likely to decrease the income of large livestock farms by 22 % -LRB--- US$ 13 billion) and a warming of 5 °C would probably reduce income by as much as 35 % -LRB--- US$ 20 billion).
Home to one of the largest livestock markets in the world, Oklahoma City falls fourth on the list of best places to flip houses.
The city has one of the largest livestock markets in the world, but the natural gas, oil and petroleum product markets form the largest sector of the local economy.
The city has one of the largest livestock markets in the world, but the natural gas, oil and petroleum product markets form the largest sector of the local economy.

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As the CDC notes, «large livestock are powerful, quick, protective of their territory and offspring, and especially unpredictable during breeding and birthing periods.»
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But in that time, the company has evolved from a livestock and poultry feed producer into one of the world's largest fully integrated poultry producers.
Jump ahead 30 years later and we are learning about the Chicago Union Stockyards, where large herds of livestock would arrive for transport.
As a result of the small population and the large ratio of livestock to people, Australian red meat production far exceeds domestic consumption, making Australia one of the largest exporters of red meat in the world.
As one of the group's leaders, Hsu Jen - hsiu, rightly says eating less or no meat is a way to love our planet because livestock emit large volumes of methane into the atmosphere, which contribute more to global warming than the emissions produced by all the vehicles around the world.
Livestock production is the largest source of water pollutants, principally animal wastes, antibiotics, hormones, chemicals from tanneries, fertilizers and pesticides used for feed crops, and sediments from eroded pastures.
A dairy association is has filed a lawsuit alleging the state Department of Natural Resources is over-regulating large livestock operations.
A very large increase also took place over the period 1992 to 1997 in the case of organic dairy cows (469 percent), layer hens (1123 percent) and broilers (120 percent) with certified organic livestock being raised in 23 States; but over the same period, the production of organic beef cows decreased by 35 percent, hogs and pigs by 65 percent and sheep and lambs by 42 percent.
In both Australia and Argentina, the extensive nature of livestock systems is the most suitable management option in dryland conditions and large farms are typical.
So all those whimsical pictures completely ignore the large number of animal infant deaths... Anyone, actually involved in rural life, especially in livestock management, is fully aware of this, not least because they often have to intervene to improve the survival rates of these already developed mammalian offspring.
It is aimed at helping large livestock farmers make sure there is proper management and storage of nutrients, such as manure.
When comparing human and veterinary use of antibiotics, it failed to acknowledge the vastly different population sizes as well as the fact that livestock such as cattle and pigs weigh more than people and thus will require a larger volume of antibiotic to treat an infection than a person will.
The Republican lawmaker — who has announced he is running for Senate — reported sharp reductions in the minimum value of his two largest assets, Rehberg Ranch and Rehberg Ranch Land and Livestock, which had been listed at a minimum worth of $ 5 million each in 2009.
• The State Emergency Operations Center has received reports that several farms were impacted by the flood waters causing a large number of dead livestock and potential hazardous waste material due to those deaths.
Current research projects focus on the process and outcomes of food system localisation in a globalising environment, the sustainability implications of a large scale transition to agriculturally derived bio-fuels, the effects of school and community context on childhood obesity, and the micro-politics of animal welfare in alternative livestock systems.
To meet the demands of growing consumption, a larger share of the global surface is being used for agriculture, livestock, forestry, energy plantations and infrastructure.
Dr. Julie Wolf, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), senior author of the study said: «In many regions of the world, livestock numbers are changing, and breeding has resulted in larger animals with higher intakes of food.
Half the world's tropical rainforests are gone, and large areas of grasslands once open to wildlife are now fenced in for livestock
Fences allow lions and other wildlife to survive on fragments of land on which it would otherwise be impossible to conserve large mammals because they keep big animals from coming into conflict with humans, livestock and agriculture.
«Our findings reflect what small - livestock farmers often tell us: that the jackal is a much more challenging threat than larger carnivores such as caracal or even leopard,» said lead author and PhD candidate Marine Drouilly, of the Institute for Communities and Wildlife in Africa at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
In India, a broad increase in fertilizer use coupled with large contributions from livestock waste have resulted in the world's highest concentrations of atmospheric ammonia.
Ten thousand years ago, at the dawn of the Neolithic era, the agricultural revolution began to yield vastly larger amounts of food from cultivated crops and livestock, allowing rapid growth in human populations.
The study is part of a larger field of research that aims to understand when, where and how humans turned wild plants and animals into the crops, pets and livestock we know today.
• BIOTECHNOLOGY The livestock business accounts for about 18 percent of all anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions — an even larger contribution than the global transportation sector, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization.
The idea was to target three issues with traditional meat farming: protect animals from inhumane conditions and eventual slaughter; reduce the environmental damage of large - scale livestock operations; and give humans healthier meat and better food security.
The authors discovered that veterinarians» movements produce an unexpectedly large number of potentially infectious contacts between farms that can quickly spread dangerous livestock diseases.
Animal breeders have sometimes seen such large sperm from livestock, but those turned out to have twice the number of chromosomes they were supposed to and were likely unable to fertilize eggs.
The greatest part of genetic heritage — and the largest numbers of livestock in general — are concentrated in the developing world.
Perhaps that is because agriculture — including livestock - rearing and forestry — is one of the largest sources of greenhouse gas pollution.
At the federal level, budget bills have prohibited the regulation of greenhouse gasses from large livestock operations since 2009.
Although lignin is made from a large number of sugar molecules, which should provide energy, livestock can't digest this material because of the way its sugars are chemically bonded together.
The connections to irrigation practices and global grain supplies, to Conservation Reserve Program land, to cover - cropping practices, and to fire risks alluded to in this section and elsewhere in this assessment are all reminders that the interdependence of livestock and crop agriculture will likely loom large as Montana experiences the cumulative effects of climate change.
Savory argues that livestock such as cattle, when moved around ranches in patterns that simulate the movements of large herds of wild grass eaters, can help stimulate the -LSB-...]
Cas9 / gRNA - mediated gene targeting demonstrated in this study can be used for other livestock species, which will contribute to advancing transgenic applications of large animal in biomedical and agricultural sciences.
He explains that although «some may think that 4 - H is only about livestock and cooking projects, we have a large assortment of STEM - related projects.»
Montana's large agricultural industry consists of both crops and livestock.
The EPA estimates that methane accounts for about 9 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. Landfills are the third - largest source of methane emitted by humans in the U.S. behind oil and gas production, and livestock.
The EPA's most recent geenhouse gas inventories show that natural gas production and distribution is the second largest source of methane emissions nationwide, just behind methane emissions from livestock.
The production of red meat, for example, requires large amounts of water and livestock feed, and produces liberal amounts of methane.
Yes, it does have a long history of use in feed for livestock, in large part due to its high protein and complete nutritional profile.
They didn't have any knowledge of nutrition, they weren't able to eat nutritious, calorie dense food whenever they wanted due to the absence of agriculture, and their immune systems were likely weaker than ours (living together in large numbers placed enormous selective pressure on our early agricultural ancestors to develop strong immune systems, keep in mind that early human civilizations did not have indoor plumbing... so they were sometimes exposed to fecal matter both from fellow humans and from livestock and they didn't have the kinds of disinfectants and anti-biotics we have today,) so for them to have serious health complications makes perfect sense, nature can be very harsh and doesn't care how long its been since your last meal or what your calorie and micro nutrient needs are... a lot of people died at very young ages back then simply because they got sick and didn't have proper medical treatment or due to malnutrition or starvation.
Whether you agree with all the conclusions in the World Bank report of not, you can see that livestock is the single largest driver of climate change.
The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo was like Christmas for me in my 20's, 3 weeks of large scale, over-the-top entertainment including a BBQ cook - off, carnival food, bull riders and performances from some of the best country music stars, musicians I'd listened to since childhood — George, Alan and Garth to name a few.
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