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Livestock Feed and Acreage Analysis
Its printed title: The Energetics and Land-Use Economics of Livestock Production: Feed Conversion, Maintenance Overheads, and Acreage Allocations
Land set aside only to keep animals alive, before they yield anything. A table compares feed conversion for broilers, pigs and beef cattle by live and edible weight, and it sets the human-edible measure against the carbon cost of pasture, then works maintenance energy through the GfE 2023 and NRC 2012 formulas. It arrives at 0.394 hectares of pasture for a 650 kg beef cow, 0.084 of cropland for a 200 kg sow and 0.0035 for a laying hen. Several formulas vanished, and it writes for commercial herds.
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- FEASTING after the FALL
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- Household and village
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- 118 Livestock Feed and Acreage Analysis.pdf
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- Works cited
- 58
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- 3 confirmed
- 1 partly confirmed
- 0 marked for safety
- A23 confirmed 86 % of livestock feed human-inedible; ruminants 2.8 kg human-edible feed per kg meat and 0.6 kg human-edible protein returned per kg eaten; FCR live weight chicken 1.5–2, pig …
- A29 confirmed 118's maintenance: 650 kg cow 76.28 MJ ME/day, 27,842 MJ/yr, 2,651 kg DM, 11,200 kg DM/ha × 60 % = 0.394 ha; no production, family, village or sand figure
- A40 confirmed 118: 200 kg sow 588 kg concentrate/yr = 0.084 ha; finisher 278 kg = 0.039 ha; doubled on sand at 3 t/ha; 4 kg boiled potatoes replace 1 kg grain, 278 kg grain = 1,100 kg potatoes …
- A48 partly confirmed Laying hen eats 110–130 g/day, 40–45 kg/yr, against 118's 200 kcal and 25 kg; a dozen hens on grain eat as much rye as five people; on gleaning 15–20 kg grain and ~150 eggs; a …
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Its works cited 58
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- 31 journals, universities and public bodies
- 2 document-sharing sites
- 2 encyclopaedias
- 1 forum, video or social site
- 3 blogs
- 18 other web pages
- 1 without an address
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