Beef cattle

excellent cattleman. I am very good with cattle. I have worked so many head that knowing how to get them to cooperate has become second nature. My dad is to credit for most of my instincts. He ingrained lessons on how cattle behave at a very young…

Ten years ago there were only about fifty grass-fed cattle operations left in the U.S. Now there are thousands. (Robbins) Throughout the years, the slaughter industry has grown tremendously due to the demand for meat of all kinds. During the rise of the industry many rules and regulations have been enacted to provide peace of mind to consumers and create the most humane slaughter methods. Temple Grandin, a very influential person on this matter, has created standards and equipment used during…

Perhaps a staple of the diets in many developed nations, my favorite dish is the traditional hamburger with fries that is typically found in most fast food chains in the Americas and Europe. Hamburgers are an extremely popular dish across many nations, and there are many sociological reasons that the dish is favored, in addition to the arguably almost addictive ingredients and chemical additives added in the most popular servings of this dish. Despite the many qualities of the current hamburger…

Cattle ranching The Environmental Defense Fund stated, when methane is in the air it absorbs the sun’s heat, and then warms the atmosphere. While methane doesn’t linger as long in the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, it is initially far more devastating to the climate because of how effectively it absorbs heat. More heat, less rain, more drought, no more Amazon, a quite simple turn of events going wrong extremely fast. There are Land Sparing policies in act to help reduce greenhouse gasses. The…

problem has been threatens to humans, animals and plants species and environment. There are many causes of deforestation. One of the main reason is cattle ranching. Urban Construction, Agriculture, commercial purposes and illegal logging are some of common causes. Forests are cut down in order to create land for grazing cattle. Especially in Latin America, cattle are an attractive investment of Amazonian farmers, once forest has been cleared that it can be used to produce…

sq miles. The Amazon basin covers eight countries and cattle ranching is ruining the forest. Find out how cattle ranchers are ruining the forest and how it can be changed, read this article and be blown away! The majority of deforestation is in the amazon basin. Most of the deforestation is caused by cattle ranchers cutting and burning down trees and nature for pasture. 65-70% of deforested areas in Brazil are now used for pasture. Cattle have low maintenance costs in latin america. Large…

talking about pink slime and and LFTB the pros and cons about the protein and if it is bad for you. me personally I think that beef should should original no with additives to make it more people friendly which what pink slime is doing making is have less calories and more artificial stuff. Lean Finely Textured Beef, known to the public as Pink Slime, is simply meat from cattle that is removed from fat by the use of a machine. Removing this meat from the fat LFTB is the fat separated from the…

A great number of these bacteria, E. coli, are harmless and form an important part of the normal flora which is part of a healthy human intestinal tract. E. coli can also be found in contaminated meat which in most cases is transmitted through cattle feces during the slaughtering process. However, some E. coli are pathogenic, meaning they cause illness, either diarrhea or illness outside of the intestinal tract such as urinary tract infection, kidney failure, respiratory illness and…

Rydeen. This beef operation was started in 1973 and continues to be a working operation today. The Rydeen farm is a seedstock operation, meaning they sell their registered calves. The farm started out with Charolais and a Hereford Angus cross. After some years, the family decided to switch to Simmentals. The Rydeen’s liked that the Simmentals have better maternal traits and docility. The Rydeen’s have a cow herd that is pretty low maintenance, compared to some operations. The cattle are out on…

Introduction In vertebrates, reproduction is primarily controlled by the hypothalamus-pituitary-gonad axis. The gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) neurons in the hypothalamus are key regulators of the hypothalamic neuroendocrine system mainly though the synthesis of GnRH (Moenter et al., 2003). The decapeptide GnRH is released from the hypothalamus in a pulsatile manner, and the amplitude and frequency of these pulses change throughout the estrous cycle (McCartney et al., 2002; Moenter et al.…