Growing crops to feed animals requires a lot more land, energy and fertilizer than growing them to feed people, he says: 70% of the land that was once Amazon rain forest is dedicated to grazing.
"We don't force feed the animals, they feed and live freely on our land, " says the farm's owner, Eduardo Sousa.
They have not been able to produce enough high quality silage to feed the animals through the winter, resulting in a big rise in winter-feed costs.
Livestock farmers who use corn to feed their animals could see higher costs, but most have contracts with processors who provide their feed grains.
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Tractors freed acres of land for production that heretofore had been used only to feed draft animals.
You plant your crops, you wait for them to grow, you feed your animals, the wheat sways in the wind.
Even today, many of the children at the village school will be up early to help feed the animals and milk the cows.
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In 1981, he secretly entered Siberia to document a Soviet food-processing facility that was converting illegally harvested whale meat into feed for animals at a fur farm.
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Cattle farmers are struggling to feed their animals.
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The EcoBot II powers itself in much the same way as animals feed themselves to get their energy, he said.
Nitrogen and phosphates also are used in feed to make bigger animals.
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"These groups escaped the Spanish rule for 200 years because they fled to the Sierra de San Carlos where they had water, plants and animals to feed themselves, " she said.
They've been able to absorb the extra costs of shipping in hay and sending their animals to feed lots, but for smaller farms and ranchers that experienced large fires, the situation is less optimistic.
If you are following the markets and the news, you know that with the shortage of grain crops, which plump up our animals, feed prices are on the rise as is the frenzy over the possible decrease in bacon on home tables.
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First, bingeing and starving is how many animals tend to feed in the wild.
Findings indicate that the majority of companies surveyed regularly feed antibiotics to their healthy animals to prevent illness and to promote faster animal growth.
That means farmers will be devastated and consumers could see higher prices at the grocery store for corn, soy and wheat products, as well as meat from animals raised on corn feed.
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"In order to get cancer in lab animals you have to feed fairly high levels of the drug over a long term, " said Dr. David Acheson, the FDA's assistant commissioner for food protection.
Deep in a remote region of Cameroon, we are following two hunters looking for bush meat -- forest animals they can kill to feed their families.
But every year, a lucky few get the chance to feed, bathe and exercise the endangered animals at the Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Chengdu, China.
"Kites are opportunistic scavengers, to conserve energy they feed mostly on worms and small dead animals, which they can see from a great height", Mr Straughan said.
The union leader said they had already raised issues of fallen stock, shortage of fodder and the price of buying additional feed but he feared the cost of animals losses could be enough to drive some farmers out of business.
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He encourages his clients to feed their pets raw meat, as these animals eat in the wild.
The Irish Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Animals said the owner had been making efforts to feed them but it had spiralled out of control.
As well as animal welfare concerns over rearing large numbers of farm animals in close proximity, the water use, farmland for animal feed, waste and greenhouse-gas emissions associated with meat production make it one of the most significant environmental problems in the world today.
The more animals there are being raised for human consumption, the more demand there is for feed crops, fertilizers, farming equipment, seeds and arable land.
The court heard how he failed to feed his entire herd adequately and did not treat, or seek veterinary treatment for, sick or injured animals.
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