Agriculture

Agriculture

The practice of cultivating soil, crops, and livestock and the preparation or marketing of those products.The practice of cultivating soil, crops, and livestock and the preparation or marketing of those products.

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dock

Agriculture; Dairy science

To remove a cow's tail. This practice may keep cows udders cleaner, but may also result in cows being less content, especially in fly season.

downer cow

Agriculture; Dairy science

A cow unable to arise due to disease or injury.

dry cow

Agriculture; Dairy science

A cow that is not lactating or secreting milk after it has completed a lactation period following calving.

dry lot

Agriculture; Dairy science

An open lot that may be covered with concrete, but that has no vegetative cover. Generally used as exercise areas in most of US, but may be used as primary cow housing in the more ...

edema

Agriculture; Dairy science

The presence of abnormally large amounts of fluid in the intercellular tissue spaces of the body, as in a swelling of mammary glands commonly accompanying the initiation of the ...