Area of Focus: Sustainable Livestock Husbandry

Created: Jan 05, 2007
Updated: May 31, 2007
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Sustainable Livestock Husbandry

Sustainable livestock raising is custom-designed to region, has low inputs, maintains or improves soil conditions and forage, balances biodiversity with forage production, custom-designs predator control to minimize impacts on ecosystem, minimizes invasive exotics, shares watering areas with wildlife, and minimizes impacts on stream waterflows and riparian communities. Sustainable ranching takes responsibility for animal welfare during the ranch or farmyard stage as well as during transport, fattening, slaughtering, processing, packaging, wholesaling and retailing. No growth hormones and minimal antibiotics are used in feedlots.

Featured Resources

Agriculture 21 Magazine - Spotlight: Reconciling Livestock and Environment In a report to the Committee on Agriculture (COAG), FAO outlines the major corrective measures urgently needed to address livestock's environmental impact which, it warns, "will otherwise worsen dramatically".

National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service - Biodynamic Farming & Compost Preparation

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Husbandry Institute is dedicated to creating consumer demand for sustainable, ethical animal farming and its products.

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Biodynamic methods make use of special plant, animal and mineral preparations which stimulate and balance vital processes in soil and plants. These methods lead to a natural reduction of pests and diseases in plants and animals, and an increase in the nutritive and health giving value of food produced.

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