Cattle feeding

Tragedy of the Commons in the American West: The Cattle Boom Garrett Hardin’s Tragedy of the Commons is a fundamental principle in the study of environmental science. Hardin’s classic example is the herdsman who desires to selfishly maximize their economic gain at the expense of their community’s shared pasture. In his example, the commons are a shared resource or the open range. Each herdsman is located in a society that prioritizes constant economic gain, while there are limited resources.…

Cow Tipping Fake or Really Fake? This article written by author Jake Swearingen, publish on an online journal Modern Farmer. Swearingen, try’s to establish how impossible it is for one person to tip a standing cow over. Tipping of cows however, entertaining it is just not very likely. Swearingen, try’s to help make his claim with proof of how cow tipping can be done. The term “Cow Casting” is when veterinarians need for a cow to be on their side. This procedure takes many skilled helpers and…

4.3.6 Distance to the nearest market This variable was found to adversely affect supply of livestock to the market. As hypothesized, increased number of kilo meters to the market center led to the decrease of supplied volume of livestock to the market. Therefore, this variable negatively influenced the supply side of live animal to the market. It further reveal that, farmers who resided far away from lare town treat livestock similar to saving accounts and typically only supplied less number of…

evolution of production progressed it introduced innovative machines with new technologies, people have changed roles in the production line. We now have highly mechanized assembly lines in which machines take the brunt of the work. In the example of the cattle slaughterhouses, one saw touches thousands of hides. The hide of each animal has survived life in a CAFO (concentrated animal farming operation). The hides having excrement caked on them before they go for slaughter.…

Food, Inc. is a 2008 documentary directed by Robert Kenner. Food, Inc. introduces unaware Americans of the topic of America’s corporate controlled food industry. Food, Inc. highlights how fast food has encouraged a huge growth in the production of food which resulted in food safety becoming a second thought. Food, Inc. illustrates the importance of consuming healthy and non-contaminated food. With factories becoming larger due to the increase in need for food faster, industries are finding any…

Vredenburg 1 Amber Vredenburg Professor Green ENG 170-03 3 December 2014 Industrial Dairy Production Misconceptions “Major problems exist with the theory that higher or greater intelligence grants us the right to dominate and consume others though because it provides us with the argument that it is all right to eat human babies and people with mental disabilities because they potentially lack the same intelligence we possess” (Keegan par.18) Most people assume that dairy consumption is cruelty…

Throughout the world, cattle breeders use a number of methods to manage the breeding of livestock. These methods are used to retain desired qualities in both beef and dairy cattle. One of the most prominent methods is known as line breeding. This practice is used over a large span of time, in order to insure desired qualities are retained over a number of generations. When used properly over a great number of years, qualities can be maintained indefinitely. The process involves keeping a genetic…

Some people prefer their agriculture business to be based on crops while others prefer to take care of livestock as an alternate. The agriculture business that I chose to build and make profit from being a sheep farm. On this farm I am going to be raising Rambouillet sheep for their fine luscious wool. My sheep farm is going to be in Southwest part of Texas. This fine and lovely sheep farm is going to be called the Carver Farm. The reason why I chose a sheep farm as my business is because I…

“The Solace of Open Spaces: Rules of the Game: Rodeo” is an essay by Gretel Ehrlich , is about how people who do not live in the ranching lifestyle think that rodeo animals are treated cruelly. Many people who have not been around livestock in their life think that people are beating the animals in to bucking and this all that they do, which is not true. The stockmen has been selectively breeding for years based on the fact the animal loves to buck. Bucking stock do not live that hard of lives,…

It was the summer of 1864. I was nineteen years old. I was living on a farm, in Texas, just on the border of mexico. That was such a beautiful time of year. The golden wheat fields flourished and lilacs painted the meadows a shade of bright periwinkle. But that summer will haunt me for the rest of my life. I tossed and turned one night, gloomy and sleepless. I peered out my window to the barn. The creaky white picket fence, surrounding the fields had unlatched in the night, leaving an endless…