Raising animals for food and fibre.
10 topics · 10 curated works
No prior grounding assumed.
Guidelines for Humane Handling, Transport and Slaughter of Livestock
FAO · 2001
Sets out concrete handling and slaughter practices that reduce animal stress and injury, arguing welfare and meat quality follow from the same…
+1 more at this level
Assumes you know the vocabulary.
Cattle and Their Diseases
Robert Jennings · 1864
Surveys American and European cattle breeds against their intended purpose — dairy, beef or draft — and argues that matching breed to purpose, rather…
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Primary sources and full treatments.
Special Report on Diseases of Cattle
United States Bureau of Animal Industry · 1892
Compiles practical diagnosis and treatment guidance for the major cattle diseases of the period, written for farmers and country veterinarians who…
+2 more at this level
10 works
FAO
Sets out concrete handling and slaughter practices that reduce animal stress and injury, arguing welfare and meat quality follow from the same practices rather than trading off against each other.
link checked 17 Sept 2026FAO
Surveys how smallholder poultry keeping and industrial broiler production have diverged worldwide and argues policy has mostly served the latter at the expense of the former.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Robert Jennings
Surveys American and European cattle breeds against their intended purpose — dairy, beef or draft — and argues that matching breed to purpose, rather than chasing any single 'best' breed, is what husbandry decisions come down to.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Joseph E. Wing
Argues sheep farming had been wrongly dismissed as marginal in the United States, and sets out breeding, pasture and market practices for running it as a serious commercial enterprise rather than a sideline.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Steinfeld et al.
Quantifies livestock's environmental footprint across land, water, climate and biodiversity for the first time, and argues it is one of the largest contributors to environmental degradation at every scale examined.
link checked 17 Sept 2026FAO
Argues that disease outbreaks in pig farming are mainly failures of biosecurity practice rather than bad luck, and sets out the specific farm-level practices that prevent them.
link checked 17 Sept 2026FAO
Reviews the nutritional evidence for milk and dairy products across the life course and argues their value differs sharply by region depending on what dairy is displacing in the local diet.
link checked 17 Sept 2026United States Bureau of Animal Industry
Compiles practical diagnosis and treatment guidance for the major cattle diseases of the period, written for farmers and country veterinarians who had no access to a veterinary college.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Frank B. Morrison
Systematises livestock feed value and digestibility into feeding standards, turning how much and what to feed cattle, pigs and poultry into a calculation rather than a rule of thumb.
link checked 17 Sept 2026USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
Lays out the inventory, monitoring and grazing-management methods US range and pasture managers are trained on, treating grazing capacity as something to be measured rather than assumed.
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