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Northern International Livestock Exposition (NILE) originated as an idea from the livestock committee of the Billings Chamber of Commerce in 1966. In 1967, the Public Auction Yards hosted an event to showcase the region’s vast livestock industry. [1] By the fall of 1968, a full-fledged livestock show with 250 exhibitors and 600 entries was ...
The Agora is a Baltimore, Maryland-based network for over thirty companies in the publishing, information services, and real estate industries. [1] [2] Agora was founded in 1978, in the Mount Vernon neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. [3] The Agora Companies operate independently from cities around the world.
Local ranchers wished to encourage interest in their cattle. A conversation between rancher Charles McFarland and Charles French, marketing manager for the Fort Worth Stock Yards, resulted in the first area stock show in 1896. [3] This event was the first of what would eventually become known as the Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show.
Livestock's Long Shadow: Environmental Issues and Options is a United Nations report, released by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations on 29 November 2006, [1] that "aims to assess the full impact of the livestock sector on environmental problems, along with potential technical and policy approaches to mitigation". [1]
Live cattle is a type of futures contract that can be used to hedge and to speculate on fed cattle prices. Cattle producers, feedlot operators, and merchant exporters can hedge future selling prices for cattle through trading live cattle futures, and such trading is a common part of a producer's price risk management program. [1]
The Beans entered into 12 separate easements that span nearly 21,000 acres of the property, in which subdivision is not allowed, but livestock grazing is permitted. The property can be considered ...
Crop or Livestock Global gross production value in billion US$ Global production in metric tons Global production in US$/metric ton Country with highest gross production value in billion USD Rice, paddy: $332: 751,885,117 $442: $117 (Mainland China) Pig, meat: $280: 118,956,327 $2,354: $167 (Mainland China) Cattle, meat: $269: 64,568,004 $4,166 ...
Beef cattle in a feedlot in Texas. A feedlot or feed yard is a type of animal feeding operation (AFO) which is used in intensive animal farming, notably beef cattle, but also swine, horses, sheep, turkeys, chickens or ducks, prior to slaughter.