Around 36 percent of corn grown is used as feed for livestock, including the by-products generated from the ethanol industry and human food industry. Forty percent is used for ethanol. The rest is for human consumption.
Corn is not necessary to feed a cow unless she fits the following criteria:
One thing you must know and understand about dairy steers is that they cannot be expected to gain or be fed like a typical beef steer. Dairy steers, like their dams which are used extensively in a dairy operation, have been selected for milk production, not meat. Their genetics dictate as such, and makes them much less feed efficient on either grain or pasture than what beef cattle are able to accomplish on the same ration. As a result, where Angus steers will become literal butterballs on a high-grain ration, a dairy steer will still look boney as ever--with a little fat covering, one might add--no matter how much you grain him. He will most certainly gain weight on such a diet, but not as quickly or efficiently in comparison with an Angus or even a Simmental steer.
Corn was a major source of livestock feed in the 1990s and early 2000s, with approximately 50 percent of the annual harvest being fed to chickens, hogs, and cattle.
It varies from year to year, but it's around 35%.
It has dropped from 34.6% in 1987 to the present level 24.5%
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None. If you get enough energy content with feeding oats (especially processed oats), corn is not necessary. However, it depends on the class and breed of beef cattle you are referring to, as well as environmental factors, additional feedstuffs given and accessibility. As such, a person could include anywhere from one percent to as much as 80 percent corn used with oats to feed beef cattle.
About 60 percent of the barley grown in the United States is used for livestock feed, especially dairy and beef cattle. Another third of the crop is used for malt by the food and brewing industries.
Close to two-thirds of the sorghum grown in the United States is used as livestock feed.
False, 95 percent of the worlds rice crops are user to feed humans..
According to the USDA's 2002 census of agriculture - 41.4% of US land is used for farming. Included in what is considered "farmed land" is land that is cropland, pasturland, woodland, and land in house lots, ponds, roads, wasteland etc. Of the 938.28 million acres that are included in the 41.4% farmland, 434.16 million acres are cropland (46.3% of farmland). Of the 434.16 million acres of cropland, 302.7 are harvested cropland. For the full accounting see http://www.ers.usda.gov/StateFacts/US.htm Answer submitted by Carrie - a librarian in Washington County Maryland.
Crop land is typically written as two words: "crop land." However, it may also be written as one word: "cropland." Both forms are considered correct.
A pasture is a piece of land that has permanent perennial vegetation on it, and used as a cheap means to feed livestock animals with plants that livestock harvest themselves. Fallow land, on the other hand, is cropland that is rested for a period of time from annual crop production.
Around 70% of the UK's land area is used for agriculture, including arable land, pasture, and woodland.
Primarily they are used for beef (hence the name beef), however, they can also be used for sporting events such as bull riding and calf roping.
grassland are used for cropland
Beef melt is ground beef pancreas. The most common use for beef melt is catfish food. Beef melt is used on catfish farms.
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