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Elymus glaucus is a species of grass known as blue wild rye or blue wildrye. This grass is native to North America from Alaska to New York to northern Mexico. It is a common and widespread species of wild rye .
Virginia wild rye is one of the few cool season native grasses found in the east Texas area. It is extremely palatable to livestock and will decrease without proper grazing management. It spreads via seed and tillering. It can be confused with Canadian wild rye which is a more robust plant with longer awns.
Cattle reared on a primarily forage diet are termed grass-fed or pasture-raised; meat or milk may be called "grass-fed beef" or "pasture-raised dairy". [6] The term "pasture-raised" can lead to confusion with the term "free range" which describes where the animals reside, but not what they eat.
Festuca idahoensis (Idaho fescue, blue bunchgrass) Festuca ovina (sheep's fescue) - many cultivars [6] Festuca rubra (creeping fescue grass, red fescue, red fescue grass) - many cultivars [6] Helictotrichon sempervirens AGM (blue oat grass) - several cultivars [6] Leymus condensatus (giant wildrye, canyon prince, wild blue rye)
[36] [37] When looking at meat only, ruminants consume an average of 2.8 kg of human edible feed per kg of meat produced, while monogastrics need 3.2 kg. [36] [37] Finally, when accounting for the protein content of the feed, ruminant need an average of 0.6 kg of edible plant protein to produce 1 kg of animal protein while monogastric need 2 kg.
"Perfectly legal and common" is how one expert describes the practice of feeding chicken litter — manure, feathers, spilled feed and bedding material from raising poultry — to cattle ...
Veal is the meat of young cattle , in contrast to the beef from older cattle. Though veal can be produced from a calf of either sex and any breed, most veal comes from male calves (bull calves) of dairy cattle breeds. [7] Generally, veal is more expensive than beef from older cattle.
This fescue is a densely clumping long-lived perennial bunch grass with stems from about 30 to 80 centimetres (12 to 31 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches) in height. [3] The stiff, short, rolling leaves are mostly located near the base of the tuft. The inflorescence has hairy spikelets which produce large awned fruits. The root system is thick and penetrates ...