Agricultural practice which feeding breeding of livestock
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Livestock agriculture is concerned with raising and maintaining livestock, primarily for the purposes of producing meat, milk, and eggs. Livestock agriculture also includes wool and leather production and may include animals kept for recreation (riding or racing) and draft.
Livestock and livestock products generated from $87.1 billion to $96.5 billion annually (46 to 48 percent of U.S. cash receipts from farm marketings) between 1995 and 1998 (U.S. Department of Commerce, 2000, Table 1109). Livestock agriculture is the market or consumer for a significant portion of U.S. crop agriculture.
Annual U.S. feed and residual use of feed grains (corn, sorghum, barley and oats) amounted to 154.6 million to 157 million metric tons (1994-Livestock Agriculture and