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  2. Union Stock Yards - Wikipedia

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    Union Stock Yards, Chicago, 1947. The Union Stock Yard & Transit Co., or The Yards, was the meatpacking district in Chicago for more than a century, starting in 1865. The district was formed by a group of railroad companies that acquired marshland and turned it into a vast centralized processing area.

  3. List of union stockyards in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A stockyard company managed the work of unloading the livestock, which was faster and more efficient than using railway staff. [1] Terminal stockyards received, handled, fed, watered, weighed, held, and forward-shipped commercial livestock. [2] The Chicago Union Stock Yards were the most famous and enduring example of this type of commercial ...

  4. Cattle farming - Wikipedia

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  5. Meat-packing industry - Wikipedia

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    Skaggs, Jimmy M. Prime Cut: Livestock raising and meatpacking in the United States, 1607-1983 (Texas A & M UP, 1986). Wade, Louise Carroll. Chicago's Pride: The Stockyards, Packingtown, and Environs in the Nineteenth Century (U of Illinois Press, 1987). Walsh, Margaret. The Rise of the Midwestern Meat Packing Industry (1983), strong on pork'

  6. Cattle - Wikipedia

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    Historically, the cattle population of Britain rose from 9.8 million in 1878 to 11.7 million in 1908, but beef consumption rose much faster. Britain became the "stud farm of the world" exporting livestock to countries where there were no indigenous cattle. In 1929 80% of the meat trade of the world was products of what were originally English ...

  7. Animal husbandry - Wikipedia

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    Cattle feedlot in Colorado, United States. Animal husbandry is the branch of agriculture concerned with animals that are raised for meat, fibre, milk, or other products.It includes day-to-day care, management, production, nutrition, selective breeding, and the raising of livestock.

  8. Intensive animal farming - Wikipedia

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    Cattle are domesticated ungulates, a member of the family Bovidae, in the subfamily Bovinae, and descended from the aurochs (Bos primigenius). [46] They are raised as livestock for their flesh (called beef and veal), dairy products (milk), leather and as draught animals. As of 2009–2010 it is estimated that there are 1.3–1.4 billion head of ...

  9. Agriculture in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Farming is one of the few industries in which families (who often share the work and live on the premises) are also at risk for injuries, illness, and death. Agriculture is the most dangerous industry for young workers, accounting for 42% of all work-related fatalities of young workers in the U.S. between 1992 and 2000.

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