Sentence examples for proportion of beef from inspiring English sources

"Feedlot agriculture accounts for a huge proportion of beef in the United States," Petre says.

For instance, I understand that the Ministry of Defence is now sourcing a proportion of beef from British suppliers, but no doubt more could be done.

Beef is a staple food for Argentine consumers, and although the country has been a major exporter, the highest proportion of beef production is consumed in the domestic market.

The range of the proportion of beef herds these samples represented was estimated to be 70 90%.

We hypothesised that the major reason for this difference was the management system of the farm, because a large proportion of beef cattle in Peninsular Malaysia are raised in extensive systems, including the integrated farming system [ 17].

The proportion of beef suckler cows exhibiting delayed and early OLA in this study was similar to a study involving beef cross dairy animals and those involving dairy cows [ 8- 11, 22, 27].

The proportions of beef cows with subclinical mastitis or IMI after calving and at weaning were similar.

A significant proportion of postpartum beef cows are anestrus at the onset of the breeding season.

We used the UK DEFRA & Customs and Excise figures, as this allowed us to estimate the proportion of UK-produced beef and beef products exported to Ireland, which was a parameter in the model.

The amount of UK beef imports identified during this time period (average 1439 tonnes/ yr 1997 2000), was therefore felt to be representative of the baseline level of non-UK beef as a proportion of total UK beef imported to Ireland (average 15,729 tonnes/ yr 1988–1995).

We assumed that the dietary proportions of dairy, beef, and fish were constant over time but that daily consumption varied with age (Moser and McLachlan 2002).