Cattle

Another Cow of the Future project I decided the Baroness should not fund was title “Increasing Milk and Meat Production in Cattle through Biovine Growth”, by Priya, Cara, Riya, and Chelsea. This group is seeking to increase biovine growth hormone (BGH) levels in cows as an attempt to increase milk and meat production by cattle. The project aims to spray recombinant E. coli on cattle feed so that it would be integrated into the digestive track of the cows and release into their bloodstream.…

walls and ceilings. Large animals like cattle are kept on dry feedlots and fed corn and other grains before being taken to slaughter. Small animals such as chickens never see daylight and are held inside in the dark and have to endure unhealthy living conditions. Everything about is almost completely automated, the human interaction with the animals or the conditions are very limited. The animals are fed food to fatten them up before slaughter, the food that cattle are fed mostly consists of…

benefits to the cattle industry. Temple Grandin helped design curved crowd pens. By using the idea of a curved cattle pen you eliminate many problems. Cattle have the urge to walk back in a circle to where they came from. By using the curved crowd pen design you allow them to follow their natural instinct and walk in a 180 degree curve. This helps to allow the cattle to stay calmer during the process improving the quality of meat. Also, by having curved crowd pens it prevents the cattle from…

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…

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…

out about the secrets of food. On the way, he sees horrible treatment of many animals and the mass production of corn. “At first I thought the cattle were standing or lying in grayish mud. Then it dawned on me - that wasn’t mud at all. It was manure. An endless series of cattle pens stretched to the horizon, each one home to a hundred or so animals. The cattle pens, filled with animals and their waste, are built around a corn mill.” (Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: The Secret behind What…

stressing milk production. After he died, his son Tom Lasater began to combine the Brahman and Hereford cattle with some Shorthorn bulls. Lasater then began to combine the Brahman-Hereford and the Brahman-Shorthorn and this resulted in the first Beefmaster cows. He began breeding this herd to further develop the breed. This became America’s first composite breed, with modern Beefmaster cattle having approximately 50% Brahman blood and approximately 25% Hereford and Shorthorn blood.…

the Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret documentary was very eye opening when considering how or when to eat meat products to ensure a better future for other generations. At the beginning, there was confusion, because I did not know that raising cattle had such a negative affect on our lives. However, the cogitation behind killing animals for food causes over 50% carbon dioxide pollution is astonishing to me. When the narrator encountered companies to gain new perspectives, I soon became to…

to go west to find the cattle; on the way to find, the cattle Tayo meet a woman. After meeting the woman, Tayo continued his journey. This time, Tayo went north into the mountains. When Tayo went into the mountains, he found a big section of land that was fenced off. It was on this portion of land that Tayo found the cattle. The land belonged to a Texas rancher and Tayo could not believe that whites were thieves. Tayo had to cut a hole in the fence in order to let the cattle escape. First Tayo…

embodiment of what I imagine hell would feel like. No more recess. No more hikes. No more class at the stream. No more meaning anything. They’d give me a number and throw me with the other cattle. Some of those cattle turned out to be the sun gods and somebody snatched them up and ate them. The rest of us cattle were in the crossfire of an angry god and starving men. High school turned out to be a seemingly endless battle…