livestock production
Raising farm animals
Livestock production is the raising of animals for human use—primarily for meat, milk, eggs, wool, and leather.
The term encompasses everything from small family farms to industrial-scale operations.
Livestock production accounts for a significant portion of agricultural emissions.
The phrase appears most often in discussions of agricultural policy, food systems, and environmental impact.
- intensive farmingMaximizing yield per acre
- factory farmIndustrial-scale livestock facility
- feed lotLivestock fattening enclosure
- cattleDomesticated bovines kept commercially
- dairy cowBovine kept for milk
feed · meat · carbon footprint · sheep · water troughs · milk · goats · organic farming · pigs · chickens · laying hen · veterinary care · eggs · fencing · barns · soil health · wool · yaks
- agribusinessagribusiness, farm, farms, corporate farms, factory farming
livestock productioncrop cultivation
Growing food plants deliberately
horticulture · vegetable farming · viticulture · forestry · floriculture
livestock productionhunting
Pursuing wild game
fishing · foraging · gathering · subsistence hunting · whaling
livestock, production, stock, stocks, stocked, stocking, stocky, produce, producer