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The Hereford is a British breed of beef cattle originally from Herefordshire in the West Midlands of England. [3] It was the result of selective breeding from the mid-eighteenth century by a few families in Herefordshire, beginning some decades before the noted work of Robert Bakewell .
Thomas Lewis founded his Hereford herd at The Woodhouse, Shobdon, Herefordshire in 1822, [2] 24 years before the publication of the first Hereford Cattle Herd Book. Many animals were exported from The Woodhouse Herd especially to the United States of America in the boom years of the 1880s, [3] although Hereford cattle had first been introduced to the country in either 1816 or 1817. [4]
By 1976, the Polled Hereford breed was numerically greater than the horned variety in the United States, and was about three-fourths of Iowa's Hereford stock. [2] The Iowa Polled Hereford Association erected a historical marker at the site. The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [1]
The Hereford is a hardy breed of beef cattle, now raised in many countries around the world. Main articles: Meat industry , Cattle , Sheep farming , Pig farming , and Cuniculture Meat , mainly from farmed animals, is a major source of dietary protein and essential nutrients around the world, averaging about 8% of man's energy intake. [ 60 ]
The Hereford Cattle Society (formerly the Hereford Herd Book Society, also known as the Hereford Breed Society) is the British breeding authority on Hereford Cattle, and the originator of the breed's herd book. Founded in 1878 as the Hereford Herd Book Society (under the patronage of Queen Victoria), the Herd Book for the breed was open between ...
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Reyes innovated cattle auctions in Texas by moving them from weekdays to weekends, bringing in urban cattle investors who drove up cattle prices. [5] Reyes, selling purebred Simmentals, Brangus, Beefmasters, Herefords, Charolais and Santa Gertrudis and Angus, repeatedly broke national sales records in the 1970s and 80s, and dispersed former ...
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