The Cattle Industry

The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association is a trade association and policy group that represents all segments of the cattle industry: producers, feeders, and breeders. The association has over 28,000 individual members and represents over 230,000 people in the industry. The current president of NCBA, Scott George, is a cow/calf producer from Wyoming with a long history in the dairy industry and policy groups as a member of the Farm Bureau. In addition to its role in U.S. policy, the NCBA conducts research, marketing, and promotional work for cattle ranchers. The NCBA’s vision is “an industry united around a common goal of being the world’s most trusted and preferred source of beef and beef products.” The economic interests of the cattle

Madelyn DeSpain Professor Emily Cooley WRIT 102 March 5 2024 In Corn We Trust: Looking into the complex world of the Food Supply Chain When talking about modern agriculture, It is nearly impossible to not mention corn. Corn has a major impact on our three meals that consumers don't even realize. From the start when corn grows in the fields to when they are packaged on grocery shelves in many products that the patrons eat. The book, "The Omnivore's Dilemma," by Michael Pollan talks about this task.

He visited George Naylor, an industrial corn farmer living in Iowa, at his farm to learn about the dominating industry. Since corn is one of the cheapest sources of calories, and is so abundant, scientists have modified it into just about every different form they can to make more use out of it. Corn is now used to feed cattle, which are physically designed to eat meat. Corn fed beef contains more saturated fat than grass fed beef, making it exceedingly unhealthy. Pollan also talks about the harsh lives of animals on

Animals such as sheep, cattle and pigs supplied more meat to bulk up native diets,

In the US today cattle are part of everyday culture. With more than 93 million cattle in the dairy and beef industry, and tens of thousands in the rodeo business, cattle are definitely a huge part. Lately, there has been many concerns with the bovine friends along with multiple misconceptions. Rodeos may look tough on animals, and todays society is not educated well enough on the beef and dairy industry. People don’t realize that these animals are happy, healthy, and very well cared for.

Rodeo is a sport that developed from the cattle industry in the American West. Its history reaches back to the sixteenth century. After the Civil War, with the quantity of feral cows in the Southwest and the market in the East, the era of the cattle drives, large ranches, and range cowboys began. Skills of the range cowboy led to competitive contests that eventually resulted in standard events for rodeo. With its history deep in Southwest history, rodeo continued to evolve until it has become a professional sport for men and women that is being perpetuated by youth rodeo organizations. The Spanish conquistadors and the Mexican vaqueros contributed major components to rodeo.

On July 5, 1867, General Grenville Dodge and his survey crew plotted out the future lines of the Union Pacific and platted the town of Cheyenne in the Dakota Territory. Within that same year, the cattle industry became a part of young territory that would not gain status as a state for another twenty-three years. John Wesley Iliff a cattleman and self-made entrepreneur came to Cheyenne and set up a cattle camp five miles south of Cheyenne, supplying beef to Union Pacific workers and local Indian tribes. The infrastructure Iliff, near started a “Hell on Wheels” town in coexistence of the Transcontinental Railroad soon proliferated into one of the largest cattle industries in the world.

This week's reading 'The Feedlot,' written by Michael Pollan was highly informative, stating the truths of industrial farming. The thesis in this essay portaies how commodity corn effects the environment, the feeding cows, and human beings. The essay focuses on many topics ranging from the cost of the corn, to the well being of the cows. Pollan wants to make us aware as consumers, to be as informed and updated on what we eat and the process the product undertakes. By focusing on the living conditions of the cows, and what they are fed, impacts us too.

As the United States grew in the beginning of the 20th century the demand for meat was always needed. Fortunately for the young state of Oklahoma the prairie lands of the Great Plains were a perfect area to feed the numerous heads of animals sent to the butchers that fed America. In 1907, there were 1,206,800 animals within Oklahoma; nearly all farmers in every country of Oklahoma raised hogs (Goins and Goble, 171). Oklahoma’s ranching economy changed in the youthful years of statehood as the profession of ranching became more commercialized with intent to maximize the meat per hoof, which would increase the profit margins (Baird and Goble, 194). One way the ranchers maximized the meat per hoof was the replacement of Spanish breed longhorn cattle for the heartier English breed, Hereford (Baird and Goble, 194). “Herefords were raised in such numbers that many referred to Oklahoma as ‘Hereford Heaven’ (Goins and Goble 172)”. As mentioned before plains of Oklahoma were ideal for grazing

The townspeople think that wearing that scarlet letter wasn't a harsh enough punishment. They were quick to judge and began shaming her. "... she had..to encounter the stings and venomous stabs of the public contumely... in every variety of insults..."(Scarlet Letter, 63). Some women in the crowd began to discuss Hester Prynee's punishment and began calling her names like a "malefactress", a female criminal. Even the "gossips" condemn her and felt strongly that wearing the letter "A" upon her chest wasn't harsh enough. One of the gossips said her punishment "At the very least, they should have put the brand of a hot iron on Hester Prynne's forehead." (Scarlet Letter, 55). Other women said that she could hide the mark but the sin will always

In the past century there has been a substantial change in the way human beings raise and keep animals meant for food. While in the past there were great numbers of widely spaced small individual farms, now there are relatively few, but extremely large industrialized farms. And as the numbers of animals kept and slaughtered for human consumption increases, these industrialized farms, known as Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations or CAFO's, are having more and more of an impact on the environment and people around them. The concentration of animals causes a major problem with the waste products they produce, as well as the gases, chemicals, and other types of byproducts. And the increased use of antibiotics in the animals is beginning to have a profound effect on the health of not only the environment but the communities that exist around these industrialized farms. CAFO's, and their secondary industries, are also a large consumer of oil, gasoline, and other fuels which can have an indirect, but devastating effect on the environment. Luckily there are some who have come to recognize the problems, and potential future problems, involved in this type of animal farming and have begun to inform the public to the dangers these farms pose. And in response to this information, the public is beginning to force changes in the way these CAFO's operate and the impact they have on the environment and

Our initial purpose of researching this topic has been inspired by the growing concern for the outbreak of Mad Cow Disease and it's various forms. We believe that it is imperative that we take our research and implement it to others along with facts in order to generate concern for other countries regulations, United States regulations, health concerns and economical awareness.

All things that develop in soil must be "purified" before solidifying, canning or putting away. Microorganisms in the dirt can bring about ailment when permitted to become over drawn out stretches of time. Solidifying doesn't murder numerous sorts of microscopic organisms, however high temperatures do. In this way, before sending our corn to the profound stop, it'll must be stunned

Animal husbandry is an incredibly resource intensive process. As the world’s population continues to increase the demand for animal meat and animal bi-products will too. This raises concerns and especially in the United States, one of the world highest concentration for animal husbandry and agribusiness. The focus of this investigation is to determine whether animal husbandry in Texas is sustainable in relation to fresh water use bio-contamination issues.

The sonnet, originating in Italy, was formed by Francesco Petrarch. The Petrarchan sonnet, originally consisting of two quatrains and a couplet, was soon brought to England where William Shakespeare took an interest in this unknown form of poetry. Shakespeare revised the sonnet so it consisted of three quatrains with the rhyming scheme of “abab cdcd efef” and a rhyming couplet at the end. This revised sonnet was then referred to as a Shakespearean sonnet. Shakespeare wrote in total 154 sonnets originating in the early 1590’s, many of his sonnets were linked together. Sonnets 71-74 are linked by the subject of the speaker 's projected death and self pity, the