Food Animal
This food animal industry is the largest share of total cash receipts for agricultural commodities.
What is beef cattle?
When larger farms acquire land from smaller farms, creating fewer but larger farms, this is occurring.
What is farm consolidation?
Approximately two-thirds of U.S. households own at least one of these.
What are pets?
Providing adequate housing, sanitation, nutrition, water, and veterinary care is part of this.
What is animal welfare?
This law was originally passed in 1966 and establishes minimum standards for the care and treatment of certain animals.
What is the Animal Welfare Act?
Name the three states that are among the top beef-producing states listed in your notes.
What are Nebraska, Texas, and Kansas?
This term describes the conversion of agricultural land to commercial or residential development.
What is urbanization?
This companion animal is found in about 48% of U.S. households.
What is a dog?
According to your notes, decisions about animal welfare laws and regulations should be based on this.
What is scientific information?
This 1985 law sets standards for animals used in biomedical and behavioral research.
What is the Health Research Extension Act?
Unlike hog farms, dairy farms are overwhelmingly this type of ownership.
What is family-owned and managed?
Larger operations often rely on this concept because producing on a larger scale can help them remain competitive and profitable.
What are economies of scale?
Single-source protein foods and gluten-free foods are examples of this pet food trend.
What are limited-ingredient diets?
These three things can make it difficult to determine whether an animal is comfortable and has good well-being.
What is difficulty assessing comfort, lack of universally accepted measures, and differences in how welfare is evaluated?
Name three animal management practices that can be controversial.
What are confinement housing, physical alterations, hormone use, antibiotic use, biotechnology, or electronic collars?
Since 1990, the number of U.S. hog farms has declined by more than this percentage.
What is 70%?
Name two reasons why fewer people may be entering farming as operators.
What are increasing age of farm operators and high start-up costs?
Subscription boxes, recurring deliveries, and online ordering are examples of this growing trend.
What is e-commerce?
Producers benefit from healthy animals because they are more productive and have these two additional benefits.
What are reduced medical expenses and increased profitability?
Gestation crates and caged layers are examples of this controversial management practice.
What is confinement housing?
This poultry sector averaged 67% of all poultry sales from 2011–2020 and is largely vertically integrated.
What are broilers?
Beef and fluid milk consumption have decreased while these two categories have increased.
What are poultry and fish?
Dog cameras, pet DNA testing, health-monitoring litter, and autonomous litter boxes all fall under this major industry trend.
What is technology improvement?
Why can animal welfare be difficult to regulate even when people agree that animals should be treated humanely?
What is that animal comfort and well-being can be difficult to measure, and there are not universally accepted measures?
Beak trimming, dehorning, tail docking, declawing, and ear cropping are all examples of this category of animal management.
What is physical alteration?