livestock farming
Rearing domestic herds
Livestock farming is the agricultural practice of raising animals for food, fiber, or labor.
This includes cattle, sheep, pigs, poultry, and goats kept for meat, milk, eggs, or wool.
The term distinguishes animal husbandry from crop cultivation: The region's economy depends on livestock farming rather than grain production.
- grazingFeeding on pasture
- free rangeUnconfined to pens
- grass fedRaised eating forage
- sheepWoolly farm animal
- agricultureCultivation of land, livestock
cattle · feedlots · feed lot · milk · local markets · market price · hay bales · irrigation systems · wool · manure · soil erosion · bone meal · carrying capacity · goats · slaughter · animal husbandry · ranch · farmland
- upland farminghefting, shepherding, sheep grazing, lambing, Herdwick sheep
- farmingfarms, farmer, farmers, crop, crops
- Southern African tribesBantu, Bushmen, ethnic groups, indigenous peoples, desert tribes
- agriculturefarms, crops, farmers, crop yields, cattle ranching
- species interactionsmutualism, symbiosis, commensalism, parasitism, predation
- tropical farmingtropical crops, banana plantation, coconut palms, coconut plantations, sugarcane
livestock farmingcrop farming
Growing plants for harvest
crop cultivation · grain farming · vegetable farming · horticulture · fruit farming
livestock farminghunting
Pursuing wild game
fishing · wild harvesting · foraging · hunting and gathering · whaling
livestock farmingrewilding
Restoring natural ecosystems
wildlife conservation · wilderness preservation · habitat preservation · nature reserves · land conservation