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livestock

noun as in cattle

noun as in stock

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On farms, connectivity can help with managing equipment, monitoring livestock, and analyzing water usage to optimize plant growth.

Farmers wonder whether red wolves are dangerous to livestock.

Rural people in his region once controlled destructive fires by starting or allowing frequent, low-intensity fires, and using livestock to eat down brush in the interim.

The single biggest predictor of spillover events is land-use change—more land going to agriculture and more specifically to livestock production.

Investors who bought llamas and alpacas as livestock didn’t fare so well, as there wasn’t much of a US market for their milk or wool.

It used to carry livestock but sailed its final voyage with a hold full of Syrian men, women, and children.

Biologist Mattson is alarmed by the abrupt 2008 rise in grizzly mortality from conflicts both with livestock and hunters.

Renowned livestock specialist and autism advocate Temple Grandin brought her unique intellect and wit to Reddit.

Diversification was as beneficial in financial investments as it was in growing crops and raising livestock.

Intensive livestock farming basically means housing animals in artificial cities.

Even fences, so important to livestock raising, had been entirely demolished in most instances.

As a matter of fact, Virginia is a leader in the South in the relative importance of livestock and livestock products.

Although agriculture is no longer the leading occupation, Virginia has a variety of important crops and livestock.

The rest of the livestock was turned from the corrals and the cabin and stables set afire.

A dozen years ago, in one season, he had sold eighty thousand dollars worth of livestock from these two ranches.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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