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  2. Cattle feeding - Wikipedia

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    Cattle are basically residual claimants to crop or land resources. Those countries with excess or low-value land tend to grass-feed their cattle herds, while those countries with excess feed grains, such as the U.S. and Canada, finish cattle with a grain ration.

  3. Feedlot - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Picture Butte - Wikipedia

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    Picture Butte is a town in southern Alberta, Canada. It is located 27 km (17 mi) north of the city of Lethbridge . It claims the title of "Livestock Feeding Capital of Canada."

  5. Animal feed - Wikipedia

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    In 1997, in response to outbreaks of Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly known as mad cow disease, the United States and Canada banned a range of animal tissues from cattle feed. Feed bans in United States (2009) Canada (2007) expanded on this, prohibiting the use of potentially infectious tissue in all animal and pet food and fertilizers.

  6. Agriculture in Canada - Wikipedia

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    Canada's evolution has abandoned subsistence techniques and now sees a mere 3% of Canada's population employed as a mechanized industrial farmer who are able feed the rest of the nation's population of 30,689.0 thousand people (2001) as well as export to foreign markets. [47] (Canada's estimated population was 32,777,300 on 1 January 2007). [48]

  7. Beef cattle - Wikipedia

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    Since cattle are herbivores and need roughage in their diet, silage, hay and/or haylage are all viable feed options. [14] Despite this, 3/4th of the 32 pounds (14.52 kg) of feed cattle consume each day will be corn. [15] Cattle weighing 1,000 & nbsp;lbs. will drink an average of 41 L a day, and approximately 82 L in hot weather. [16]

  8. Farmers really do feed their cows Skittles -- here's why - AOL

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    Here's what candy debris looks like before it gets mixed in with feed. Source: Paul Octavious "At first I was offended by the thought," of cows eating candy, Janeen Hall Cole, a dairy farmer at ...

  9. Feedlot Alley - Wikipedia

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    Feedlot Alley is a nickname given to a 500 km 2 area northwest of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada known for its intensive livestock operations. The area is home to over 2,300,000 cattle and 180,000 hogs. [citation needed] Lethbridge County reported 543,566 cattle and calves and 73,161 pigs on census day 2016.

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