Beef Book Feeding

Agriculture accounts for ____% of total

greenhouse emissions

10

The process where cattle produce CH4

(methane)

enteric fermentation

What are the two types of greenhouse gasses?

Methane, carbon dioxide

Manure produces ___ and ___

methane, nitrous oxide

The North American rendering industry renders

and recycles about ___ billion pounds of

inedible animal by-products /year

59

CPI stands for:

Consumer Product Inventory

Ruminants have a ___ chamber stomach

4

Cattle can require ___ to ___ gallons of drinking

water a day

5-30

Privately owned rangeland makes up over

____% of the total acreage

27

Large tractor trailer trucks account for less

than _% of the total CO2 emissions from beef

production

1

A global, multi-stakeholder initiative to

improve the sustainability of the global beef

value chain

Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef

The name for the federal Food Stamp Program.

SNAP