Beef Cattle on the Farm Quiz

Once calves have grown and weigh around 500 -800 lbs they are ready to eat only grass and hay, and are ready:

Name a type of intensive livestock operation that prepares beef cattle to be sold as meat products through a process called finishing.

True or false: On most Canadian beef farms, beef cows and their calves live on pasture during the spring, summer and fall, eating mostly a grass diet. Then, they generally move into feedlots where they grow until they are ready to go to market.

What percent of Canada’s agricultural land is too hilly, rocky, cold or wet to grow crops, but it can support grazing livestock like cattle?

Grasslands support biodiversity (the wide variety of life found in an ecosystem) by being home for a wide variety of plants, mammals and insects. Approx. what percentage of Canadian species at risk (plants and animals that are at risk of becoming extinct) depend on this declining habitat?

Grasslands are important for long-term carbon storage and reducing greenhouse gases (GHGs) from CO2. Grazing lands store about 1.5 billion tonnes of carbon that would otherwise be released into the atmosphere. That is equivalent to

Cattle can convert the feed they eat into lean muscle more quickly, improve feed efficiency and produce leaner meat with the use of growth promotants. This helps: