livestock
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Sydney Vythilingum, 70, says his family was promised livestock that never arrived.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026
Accompanying that rise has been an increase in attacks on livestock, and that has led to the EU downgrading the "strictly protected" status of wolves to "protected".
From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026
Beef prices are at record highs, up 12% from a year ago, because a major drought in the Plains states in 2022 forced many ranchers to sell off their livestock, reducing cattle inventories nationwide.
From Barron's • Apr. 20, 2026
The bill would also rename a state program that reimburses ranchers who lose livestock to wolves, calling it the Wolf-Livestock Coexistence and Compensation Program.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2026
Overnight Aureliano Segundo became the owner of land and livestock and he barely had time to enlarge his overflowing barns and pigpens.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Vocabulary lists containing livestock
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