Sentences with phrase «on feedlot»

Animals are raised on pasture rather than being fattened on a feedlot or in a confined facility.

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

No more second - guessing if what you're getting was raised on a grassy pasture or on a feedlot using cheap fillers like corn and soy.

Yet we do not need imaginative faith in a cosmic «ladder of being» in order to say that a sentient being has desires, emotions, and drives that can not be fulfilled when it spends its days on a feedlot or caged in a hog house.

Pollen quotes a veterinarian who says it's a good thing cows eat for only six months on the feedlot, because a sustained feedlot diet would eventually «blow out their livers.»

In other words, the WTO is perfectly capable of putting beef produced from animals raised ankle - deep in their own faeces on feedlots on an equal footing with beef produced from grass - fed animals.

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.

Not exact matches

Accept delivery on a cattle contract and you get a feedlot receipt.

We have to connect the food put on our tables and in our lunch sacks to the fields we drive by on our vacations and to fields and feedlots we will never see.

Our cattle never see a feedlot, are herded gently and quietly on horseback, and live their entire lives on beautiful green pastures.

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.

Last month cattleman Charlie Mort had investment bank Moelis raise money for his expanding cattle station and feedlot business which he plans to list on the Australian Securities Exchange, with a value of $ 175 million.

Buffalo spend their lives on grass, not in feedlots and they are not subjected to questionable drugs, chemicals or hormones.

The other constraint on the live trade with China is regulations from Beijing requiring all cattle shipped from Australia to be killed within 14 days of arrival, meaning there is no time for putting on extra weight through a feedlot.

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

Research conducted since 1999 shows that grazing animals have from 3 - 5 times more CLA than animals fattened on grain in a feedlot.

We call on Minister for Agriculture Jaala Pulford and Minister for Planning Richard Wynne to explain why small - scale pastured pig and poultry farms are to be subjected to greater scrutiny and compliance costs than cattle feedlots, instead of being treated under the law like other grazing systems that rely on supplemental feed such as the majority of Victorian beef and dairy cattle.

The animals from which our meat comes must spend their entire life on the farm — absolutely no CAFOs (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations) or feedlots.

It was before 8 a.m., and he was guiding a Toyota Tundra pickup truck around the feedlot, his wallet resting on a blue bandanna on the center console.

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

Globally, agriculture contributes to 65 - 80 percent of total N2O, mainly from nitrogenous fertilizers on cultivated soils, cattle and feedlots.

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.

It's one thing for an offensive lineman to stay down on the campus feedlot, beefing up for a pro career, quite another for a tailback to risk million - dollar legs for the sake of another varsity letter.

Most beef raised in the United States comes from grain - finished cattle, which spend most of their lives on pasture eating grass before going to a feedlot for four to six months.

In the U.S., approximately 90 % of cows live on crowded feedlots or on factory farms and never graze in grassy pastures.

This is due to unsanitary conditions, poor hygiene, and the use of growth hormones on factory farms and feedlots.

Likewise, the same environmental benefits could be seen on the cow - calf system providing cattle for the feedlot, matching greater production per unit land with the environmental benefits of grazing, he added.

The same cow being fed grain in a controlled setting like a feedlot will likely meet those requirements on less feed.

«AMP is not as productive as feedlots, based on yields, but the AMP grazing system produced considerably greater amounts of beef on a land basis as compared to continuous grazing, showing that improved management can increase the output of grass - fed beef,» he said.

For instance, the feedlot model was considerably more productive, producing the same amount of beef on only half the land.

On either side, what used to be cotton fields and cattle feedlots, and before that catclaw bushes and cactus scrub, has turned into suburban sprawl.

Most modern - day cattle are raised on «landless systems,» also known as feedlots, where the cattle have little space, no access to pastures, and are fed a grain - based diet.

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.

On the positive side, a 2010 review from Nutrition Journal found that grass - fed beef has two to three times higher levels of conjugated - linoleic acid (CLA) than grain - fed cows raised in feedlots.

A leisurely life on pasture also keeps cows disease - free from such bacterial contamination as E. coli and Campylobacter, unlike their feedlot cousins who have a much higher risk of contamination.22

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

The Foundation supports raising animals on pasture as much of the year as possible, and opposes confinement operations, feedlots, debeaking, growth hormones, routine antibiotics in feed, inappropriate feed such as soy, and other practices that harm animals» health and well - being, harm the environment, and result in animal foods that are not optimally nutritious for humans.

Research conducted since 1999 shows that grazing animals have from 3 to 5 times more CLA than animals fattened on grain in a feedlot.

For the most part, small local farms do not use feedlots, rather, the animals (cows, chickens, pigs) are allowed to range freely, outside, on pasture.

F Unlike pasture raised animals, grain fed cattle are often raised on grass early in their lives, then moved to a feedlot where they are fed rations composed of 70 to 90 percent grain.

I am a feedlot cowboy and grew up on a ranch so I I am cowboy looking for someone who like the outdoors

For feedlot / dairy operations feeding a byproduct of an ethanol or biodiesel facility: Borrowers are eligible for an interest buydown of up to 4.00 % which may be used to reduce the borrower's interest rate on loans made by a local lender and BND, subject to a minimum rate of 1.00 % to the borrower.

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.

In his current role, Dr. Wells primarily focuses on production medicine associated with feedlot cattle and cow / calf customers.

Meal and bone «meal» (on your ingredient list) means that «dead animals from farms, ranches, feedlots, marketing barns, animal shelters, and other facilities; and fats, grease, and other food waste from restaurants and stores.»

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.

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

Florez, whose district is home to the state's highest concentration of mega-dairies and feedlots, including Harris Ranch, in February introduced S.B. 135, the ban on tail docking.

The exhibition of finalists will be on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London in May 2014, where Henner will show a selection of works from his «Oil Fields» and «Feedlots» series.

Abstract: An analysis of the climate impact of various forms of beef production is carried out, with a particular eye to the comparison between systems relying primarily on grasses grown in pasture («grass - fed» or «pastured» beef) and systems involving substantial use of manufactured feed requiring significant external inputs in the form of synthetic fertilizer and mechanized agriculture («feedlot» beef).