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  2. Full week set for Eastern Oregon Livestock Show - AOL

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    Jun. 8—UNION — The pulse of the Eastern Oregon Livestock Show, which was hard to detect a year ago, will soon be off and racing. The 114th EOLS is now kicking off a year after it was canceled ...

  3. The Eastern States Exposition - Wikipedia

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    The Big E, formally known as The Eastern States Exposition, is an annual fair in West Springfield, Massachusetts, which opens on the second Friday after Labor Day and runs for seventeen days. It is billed as " New England 's Great State Fair ," the largest agricultural event on the eastern seaboard and the fifth-largest fair in the nation. [ 2 ]

  4. Animal husbandry - Wikipedia

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    It uses between 20 and 33% of the world's fresh water, [81] Livestock, and the production of feed for them, occupy about a third of the Earth's ice-free land. [82] Livestock production contributes to species extinction, desertification, [83] and habitat destruction. [84] and is the primary driver of the Holocene extinction.

  5. Goat - Wikipedia

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    The goat or domestic goat (Capra hircus) is a species of goat-antelope that is mostly kept as livestock. It was domesticated from the wild goat (C. aegagrus) of Southwest Asia and Eastern Europe. The goat is a member of the family Bovidae, meaning it is closely related to the sheep. It was one of the first animals to be domesticated, in Iran ...

  6. Intensive animal farming - Wikipedia

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    Intensive animal farming, industrial livestock production, and macro-farms, [1] also known as factory farming, [2] is a type of intensive agriculture, specifically an approach to animal husbandry designed to maximize production while minimizing costs. [3]

  7. List of cattle breeds - Wikipedia

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    Over 1000 breeds of cattle are recognized worldwide, some of which adapted to the local climate, others which were bred by humans for specialized uses. [1]Cattle breeds fall into two main types, which are regarded as either two closely related species, or two subspecies of one species.

  8. Cattle egret - Wikipedia

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    The cattle egret (formerly genus Bubulcus) is a cosmopolitan clade of heron (family Ardeidae) in the genus Ardea found in the tropics, subtropics, and warm-temperate zones. . According to the IOC bird list, it contains two species, the western cattle egret and the eastern cattle egret, although some authorities regard them as a single spe

  9. Union Stockyards (Omaha) - Wikipedia

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    Initially, the Union Stockyards operated as a feeding station for stock on their way to eastern markets like the Union Stock Yards in Chicago. [6] The first livestock exchange was located in a farmhouse on the site. The Union Stock Yards originally covered over 260 acres (1.1 km 2) of land, with pens covering nearly 200 acres (0.8 km 2). [7]

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