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In animal husbandry, a concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO), as defined by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), is an intensive animal feeding operation (AFO) in which over 1,000 animal units are confined for over 45 days a year. An animal unit is the equivalent of 1,000 pounds of "live" animal weight. [1]
English: Diagram of concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFO), an alternative to traditional grazing systems where the animals stay on feedlots and food is brought to them. This is a high-input, high-output system of animal husbandry.
Large beef feedlots are called concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFO) in the United States [1] and intensive livestock operations (ILOs) [2] or confined feeding operations (CFO) [3] in Canada. They may contain thousands of animals in an array of pens.
Food & Water Watch and other groups are seeking to require federal regulation of concentrated animal feeding operations
The AFO classification is meant to apply to all sizes of operations and is the first step in defining an operation as a Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO). Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations are facilities that require federal National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) water quality permits, irrespective of size ...
Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce said in a release Friday that concentrated animal feed operations, or CAFOs, "have helped usher in an era of modern farming that can reduce negative ...
Intensive animal farming involves large numbers of animals raised on a relatively small area of land, for example by rotational grazing, [4] [5] or sometimes as concentrated animal feeding operations.
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