The importance of forages in livestock production in the United States

2015 ◽  
pp. 11-24
Author(s):  
H. J. Hodgson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Livestock Production

Global trends in population, energy use and climate: implications for policy development, rangeland management and rangeland users

2013 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerry L. Holechek
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
Fresh Water ◽  
Human Population ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Land Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
Livestock Production ◽  
Production Costs

Increasing world human population, declining reserves of cheaply extracted fossil fuels, scarcity of supplies of fresh water and climatic instability will put tremendous pressure on world rangelands as the 21st century progresses. It is expected that the human population of the world will increase by 40% by 2050 but fossil fuel and reserves of fresh water will be drastically reduced. Avoiding food shortages and famine could be a major world challenge within the next 10 years. Under these conditions, major changes in policies relating to economic growth and use of natural resources seem essential. Stabilisation of the human population, development of clean and renewable energy, enhanced supplies of water and its quality, increased livestock production, and changed land-use policies, that minimise agricultural land losses to development and fragmentation, will all be needed to avoid declining living conditions at the global level. The health and productivity of rangelands will need to receive much more emphasis as they are a primary source of vital ecosystem services and products essential to human life. Changes in tax policies by developed, affluent countries, such as the United States, Australia and Canada, are needed that emphasise saving and conservation as opposed to excessive material consumption and land development. Extreme levels of debt and chronic deficits in trade by the United States and European Union countries need to be moderated to avoid a devastating collision of debt, depletion of natural resources, and environmental degradation. Over the next 10 years, livestock producers of the rangelands will benefit from a major increase in demand and prices for meat. Rapidly increasing demand for meat in China and other Asian countries is driving this trend. Rangeland managers, however, will also likely encounter greater climatic, financial, biological and political risks. Higher interest rates, higher production costs and higher annual variability in forage resources are major challenges that will confront rangeland managers in the years ahead. Under these conditions, a low risk approach to livestock production from rangelands is recommended that involves conservative stocking, use of highly adapted livestock, and application of behavioural knowledge of livestock to efficiently use forage resources.

scholarly journals Livestock production and antibiotic resistant pneumonia in the elderly population of the United States

2015 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
pp. 111
Author(s):  
K. Howell ◽  
G.A. Beresin ◽  
G. Jeffries ◽  
A. Liss ◽  
E. Naumova
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Elderly Population ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
The United States ◽  
Livestock Production ◽  
Antibiotic Resistant

Value in the values: pasture-raised livestock products offer opportunities for reconnecting producers and consumers

2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
David S. Conner ◽  
Victoria Campbell-Arvai ◽  
Michael W. Hamm
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Livestock Production ◽  
Shared Values ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Animal Products ◽  
Concurrent Development ◽  
Food Animals ◽  
Livestock Products ◽  
Depth Interviews

AbstractPasture-based livestock production holds promise in helping to reinvigorate small and mid-scale farming, as well as farm communities, across the United States. In this study, in-depth interviews of pasture-based livestock producers, meat processors and buyers were conducted to determine behaviors, attitudes and expectations with regard to pasture-based livestock production. In addition, consumers were polled to determine their attitudes with respect to how food animals are raised and treated. Results revealed many shared values between those involved in raising, processing and distributing animal products, as well as consumers, indicating an opportunity for a ‘re-embedding’ of livestock production based on these shared values. The concurrent development of both direct and extended markets, e.g. values-based value chains, is suggested as one way of addressing the difficulties faced by individual farmers in processing and distributing animal products with their provenance and underlying values intact.

The Industrialization of Livestock Production in The United States,

1998 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Fraser Hart ◽  
Chris Mayda
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Livestock Production

scholarly journals Western Ranching, Trade Policies, and Peak Oil

Rangelands ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerry L. Holechek ◽  
Jerry Hawkes ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Natural Gas ◽  
The United States ◽  
Livestock Production ◽  
Trade Policies ◽  
Peak Oil ◽  
Oil And Natural Gas

Skyrocketing trade deficits coupled with depletion of oil and natural gas reserves could make rangeland livestock production essential to food security in the United States.

Impact of biofuel policies on livestock production in the United States

2012 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 817-831 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dragan Miljkovic ◽  
Saleem Shaik ◽  
Dane Braun
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Livestock Production ◽  
Biofuel Policies
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