Beef cattle

are chopping up chunks of cattle, standing in pools of pool that were deep. Workers were killing cattle by hitting them and slicing them up. Even though there are machines to process meat, with cattle there are different sizes that come along with it. Unlike other animals, cattle would have to be slice in a particular way and with knives. In this case workers must work in a quick way to slice up cattle to almost keep with how their machines would. Some plants kill 400 cattle an hour. The work…

leading global exporter of beef and veal (Hanrahan & Becker, 2006, p.1). Unfortunately in that year Washington, D.C. recorded a single case of Mad Cow Disease (Hanrahan & Becker, 2006, p.1).When humans consume beef containing the disease, their brains begin to degenerate (Hanrahan & Becker, 2006). Upon the U.S. announcement of the case, Japan suspended all of its imports of U.S. beef products. It was a blow to the U.S. as she was losing the principal importer of U.S. beef with the market valued…

Iowa has only gotten bigger in the Agriculture industry. As of two thousand and four we were ranked third overall. When they came back to do a recount in two thousand and fifteen we were second overall. Iowa is one of the top Agriculture producing states and we, as Iowans, are very proud of that. So what is Iowa famous for? Iowa is known throughout the United States as a major contributor to the nation's Agricultural output. Iowa is particularly known for producing corn. Iowa leads in the…

Age of puberty attainment in beef cattle is an important aspect for producers. This is because age at puberty is a key factor for a heifer’s lifetime reproductive performance. Beef cattle management programs aim for heifers to conceive by two years of age, but this can be a challenge when producing Bos indicus cattle. Puberty attainment in Bos indicus cattle is considerably lengthier than Bos taurus cattle, with the age at first calving typically being 40 months or more (Nogueira, 2003).…

manage what you can measure to identify problems and achieve improved states of welfare (Lyles, Calvo-Lorenzo 5335). Welfare in cattle has been a major topic and question of many many years due to the numerous practices. Societal acceptance is a big concern in the welfare because what ties into it is the views of treatment and living conditions of these animals. In the cattle industry outsiders and the people known as the consumers need to understand how livestock operations work and why they…

Does sex semen in cattle lower the percentage of conception? The birth of a female calf in the dairy industry eventually leads to having another cow in the milking rotation. Which helps to increase milk production for years to come. A bull that is born are not as important and sold to a company for them to raise as beef. While in the beef industry heifer, calves are useful to replace cows in the herd but the bull calves are the ones that bring the most income in the end. In the case of…

about 80 percent of all US cattle are injected with hormones to make them grow faster, and approximately 17 percent of all cows in the US were given the genetically engineered growth hormone rBGH to increase milk production. According to the European Union’s Scientific Committee…

I knew this information based on an economics research project about grass fed cattle, and the profit margin associated with raising this type of cattle. Two years ago I became more involved with Agriculture by joining FFA. I became deeply interested due to my love and passion for money, and Cattle. Not coming from a farm background I thought I wouldn’t have a chance in agriculture; I was proved wrong though because one can easily adapt…

PSS is not the only example of when artificial selection has gone wrong. There are many positives to artificial selection people just need to become educated and make sure they are not breeding for genes that can have adverse reactions, other than what was originally expected. This does raise the question of the ethics of artificial selection in relation to the quality of life the pigs will have living with the stress gene. Humans have been doing artificial selection for a long time with many…

The morning of November 9th, 2016, citizens of the United States awoke to learn that Donald Trump would be the next President of the United States. Some cried, some cheered, as for me, I felt numb as I sat looking at my phone in disbelief. As I reflected on the past few months, many thoughts rattled around my head and disappeared, but one message remained. Donald Trump didn’t win the election because he knows politics and how to lead the most powerful nation on planet earth, he won the election…