In his current role, Dr. Wells primarily focuses on production medicine associated
with feedlot cattle and cow / calf customers.
Not exact matches
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.
They are: Grassdale, at Dalby in southern Queensland, covering 5620 hectares
with a licensed
feedlot capacity of 54,000 head of
cattle; Pinegrove, at Millmerran, also in southern Queensland, covering 2200 hectares
with a licensed
feedlot capacity of 25,000 head of
cattle; and Gunnee, at Delungra, in NSW, covering 1607 hectares and
with a licensed
feedlot capacity of 10,000 head.
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.
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 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.
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.)
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.
Even in the United States,
with an abundance of
feedlots, over half of all beef
cattle weight gain comes from grass rather than grain.