livestock husbandry

collocation in English

meaningsoflivestockandhusbandry

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livestock
noun[plural]
uk
/ˈlaɪv.stɒk/us
/ˈlaɪv.stɑːk/
animals and birds that are kept on a farm, such as cows, sheep, ...
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husbandry
noun[U]
uk
/ˈhʌz.bən.dri/us
/ˈhʌz.bən.dri/
farming:
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(Definition oflivestockandhusbandryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Another indirect effect oflivestockhusbandryis felling of trees for firewood.
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They also undertake a wide variety of other work connected with the improvement of livestock and advise farmers onlivestockhusbandrymatters.
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I will certainly acknowledge that there is scope for more work onlivestockhusbandryand perhaps particularly on poultry husbandry.
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There is a need for better standards oflivestockhusbandry.
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Some of ourlivestockhusbandrymethods are wholly unsatisfactory, in particular those in relation to poultry.
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Intensivelivestockhusbandryis of comparatively recent development.
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These are widely used in modernlivestockhusbandry.
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There is a much greater dif ference betweenlivestockhusbandryand other branches of agriculture than there is between agriculture and forestry.
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I think he is wrong to suggest that the provision of incentives to better standards oflivestockhusbandryis in any way illiberal.
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We should also be open to the use of alternative methods, such as homeopathy and phytotherapy, inlivestockhusbandry.
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Diversification includes any commercial activity carried out by farmers, other than the production of a staple crop andlivestockhusbandry.
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We already know that organic farming improves land fertility and wildlife habitats and has greater respect forlivestockhusbandry.
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Livestockhusbandryprojects with a welfare component will be identified.
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I turn to the difficult subject of intensivelivestockhusbandry.
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Nevertheless, there are others whose legitimate activities are directed towards maintaining the health of farm livestock—for example, nutritionists andlivestockhusbandryadvisers.
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Secondly, there are the problems that arise from the intensification of crop andlivestockhusbandrypractices.
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This will have to be arranged with discrimination in appropriate cases and with an eye to the future development oflivestockhusbandry.
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All aspects of crop andlivestockhusbandryhave been developed.
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The fact is that because thislivestockhusbandryis most efficiently carried out by bought-in food, it has lost its direct connection with the neighbouring land.
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From the mid-1950s there has been increasing public concern at the spread of intensivelivestockhusbandry systems and the conditions of animals subjected to them.
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