stocknoun

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Cattle & similar animals
Aberdeen Angus
Africander
Alderney
Angus
Ankole
cattle
Charbray
Charolais
Chianina
Corriente
Holstein-Friesian
Irish Moiled
jersey
Kerry
Kobe
Red Angus
Red Poll
Sahiwal
Salers
Sanga

Examples from literature

Because of this bad weather, many of the livestock died. 
Mongolian herders have five different kinds of livestock. 
These groups move their livestock to different pastures within the area where they live. 
Today, many herder families are joining together to share their livestock and sell their milk, meat, and wool. 

livestock | American Dictionary

livestock
plural noun
us/ˈlɑɪvˌstɑk/
animals kept on a farm, such as cows, sheep, chickens, and pigs

livestock | Business English

livestock
noun[ U ]
uk /ˈlaɪvstɒk/us
animals such as cows, sheep, etc. that are kept or traded as a source of income:
livestock farmers/industry/marketThe organic livestock industry has grown substantially in the last few years.

Examples of livestock

livestock
Without a better understanding of popular terminology and establishment of clear philosophical goals, it will be impossible to design and conduct relevant crop/livestock research.
On the outskirts of the bazaar, livestock dealers lead their swarming herds along narrow village paths lined by millet-stalk fences.
Integrating forage, crop and livestock systems can spread economic and production risks over several different enterprises, thereby taking advantage of a variety of agricultural markets5,7.
While we do not explicitly model any benefits associated with more livestock patches, it is reasonable to assume they would exist.
The livestock element has tended to be viewed by scientists as an adjunct to crops, to which it contributes manure and draught power.
Rather than attempting uniform area-wide, inundative releases of sterile males, it may be more cost-effective to preferentially target aggregated populations associated with livestock.
If in addition to it not being removed, village livestock grazing is not restricted, the number of tigers could fall to perilously low levels.
Farming systems are dominated by mixed cropping, mixed farming (crop and livestock production) and mono-cropping of cereals.
Neighbouring villages would typically share a common grazing area to prevent stock rustlers from attacking boys caring for livestock far from the settlements.
Facilities designed solely to maximize livestock revenue created forms of manure that are difficult to process into valuable outputs.
The challenge is to develop a common framework that includes both production and environmental goals and from which guidelines can be provided for livestock producers.
The proportions of wheat consumed by different livestock classes were assumed to be consistent over the years of the study.
Of those who migrated, 71 per cent were engaged in long distance migration while the remaining 21 per cent commuted with livestock.
The results indicate that thousands of wildlife faeces entered livestock feed on each of the four farms over the winter months monitored.
Because of the central role of oxen in this system, there is a greater integration of livestock breeding with land husbandry.
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Collocations withlivestock

livestock

These are words often used in combination with livestock.

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domestic livestock
In contrast, reducing fragmentation can increase the number of infectious contacts - both among endangered species and also with host reservoirs such as domesticlivestock.
intensive livestock
Among farms with intensive livestock production, the possibility increases for contamination of the lettuce during the fertilization process or by the irrigation water.
livestock auction
Livestockauction markets are an important link in the marketing chain.
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