Otherwise, the social structure of badger groups broke down when some were killed, and the animals ranged further afield - infecting more cattle and leading to increased TB incidence.
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The plan would displace about 30, 000 people and affect tens of thousands more who graze cattle there in the dry season.
He also called for more inspections of cattle at the slaughterhouse and to ensure that the 1997 feed ban on ground bone meal is not being violated.
Rachel Wyatt, of the MCS, said farmers must "look at land management practices, put up more fences to keep cattle out of rivers and change patterns of manure spreading".
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Less grain, more grass, lighter cattle.
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He showed me the scapula of an aurochs, an extinct forebear of domestic cattle, weighing more than two thousand pounds.
The NFU said more than 48, 000 cattle have been culled in Wales in the past five years, with only 1, 046 being culled in 1998.
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Many people believe that grass-fed cattle are a more sustainable choice.
More than 70% of cattle and sheep that die in the capital, Nouakchott, are killed by eating plastic bags, environment ministry official Mohamed Yahya told BBC Afrique.
It caused the French Government to ban meat and bone meal in animal feed, take T-bone steaks off menus and institute more stringent health tests for cattle.
Conservative MP Daniel Kawczynksi made a speech in which he told MPs that more than 2, 000 cattle were slaughtered in Shropshire last year as a result of bovine TB.
Right away they said that ranching game for licensed hunters would be far more profitable in Wyoming than ranching cattle.
Then there are the internal conflicts in South Sudan - armed rebellions and clashes over cattle which have killed more than 1, 500 people this year.
Farming groups claim that the proposed badger culls will reduce the incidence of TB in cattle by 30% or more.
For the time being, the drought and fires have made things only slightly more difficult for many of the larger cattle operations.
While Worcester kept things tight, relying on the power of their pack and midfield runners, the Pirates attempted a far more expansive game, half-backs Gavin Cattle and Johnny Bentley constantly looking to run with ball.
After the latest case, in a suckler herd, Scottish farmers have been urged to be "more alert than ever" to issues among their cattle or sheep.
But in the big picture, owners like Jones and Davis have been little more than the occasional strays in a herd of cattle that follows league marching orders blindly.
In New Mexico, a processing plant has been fighting the U.S. Department of Agriculture for more than a year for approval to convert its former cattle slaughter operation into a horse slaughterhouse.
In the southwestern corner of Texas, ranchers can earn more money by selling water to city dwellers than by raising cattle, said Char Miller, a professor of environmental analysis at Pomona College in Claremont, Calif.
More people means more forest cleared for shifting cultivation, and bigger herds of goats and cattle browsing the vegetation and compacting the soil.
The farmers union said the figure meant Wales has seen the figure rise 22%, more a fifth, since 2010, despite farmers "adhering to strict cattle controls".
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Giraffes, hippopotamuses, lions, elephants, zebra, gazelles, cattle and horses roamed across grasslands that may have received ten times more rainfall than the same area today.
The National Trust argues that vaccination could prove to be a more effective option than culling, in conjunction with tightened regulations designed to prevent cattle-to-cattle transmission.
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Ministers and their officials should have shown more scepticism, as they should when they offered only 50% compensation for cattle with BSE, a standing temptation to unscrupulous farmers to send their animals for slaughter in order to obtain the market price for them.
As this report from the Northern Territory shows, even a temporary suspension will not only hit cattle farmers, but all the support industries, like trucking firms and, more curiously, helicopter mustering groups.
This means that we are using our beef resources more efficiently, which also means that we can meet consumer demands with lower prices and fewer cattle.
One more case from India: ornithologists who want to save three species of vulture (endangered because cattle carcasses are tainted by chemicals) see their best ally as the Parsees, who on religious grounds use vultures to dispose of human corpses.
Throughout the summer, well-heeled guests saddle their own horses and eat steak with the cowboys, and discover that herding 400 cattle is good training for managing a business--and a heck of a lot more fun.
The poverty is all the more striking because of the richness of the setting: green and golden rolling hills, roaming horses and cattle, and tall corn and golden sunflowers sprouting from the fertile soil.
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