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Last Updated: December 04, 2008 Related resource areas: Beef Cattle

Abortion-beef cattle

Abscess-beef cattle

Accessory organs

Acid detergent fiber

Agricultural Marketing Service

Allelomimetic behavior

Amino acid-beef cattle

Amino acid, limiting

Amino acid, essential

Anestrous-beef cattle

Anorexia nervosa

Anterior Pituitary

Anthelmintic-beef cattle

Antioxidants

Arteriosclerosis

Artificial insemination

Artificial vagina

Atherosclerosis

Average daily gain (ADG)

Balance, metabolic

Balanced ration

Basal Metabolism

Bioassay measurements

Biological value, protein

Birth weight EPD

Blemish-beef cattle

Body condition score

Breed- beef cattle

Breeding value-beef cattle

Brisket disease

Brucellosis-beef cattle

Bulbourethral (Cowper's) gland

Buller-Steer Syndrome

Bureau of Land Management

Calving interval

Carrying capacity-beef cattle

Center for Veterinary Medicine

Certified organic beef

Cesarean section

Chemotherapeutics

Colostrum-beef cattle

Compensatory gain

Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation

Continental breeds

Cooperative Extension Service

Cow-calf operation

Custom Feedyard

Dietary adjustment period

Digestible energy

Distillers grains

Double Muscling

Dressing Percentage

Dystocia-beef cattle

Electronic Identification

Embryo transfer

Endocrine gland

Esophageal groove

Estrous-beef cattle

Estrus-beef cattle

Expected progeny difference

Fatty acids, essential

Feed adulterants

Feed conversion

Feed efficiency

Fescue toxicity

Fetus-beef cattle

Finish-beef cattle

Food and Drug Administration

Food Safety and Inspection Service

Futures contract

Generally regarded as safe

Generation interval-beef cattle

Hand mating-beef cattle

Heat synchronization

High moisture corn

Immunity-beef cattle

Inbreeding-beef cattle

Independent culling level

Index-beef cattle

Insemination-beef cattle

Intermediary metabolism

Intrinsic factor

Kidney, pelvic and heart fat

Lactation-beef cattle

Lagoon-beef cattle

Land Grant University

Libido-beef cattle

Luteinizing hormone

Marbling-beef cattle

Melengestrol acetate

Metabolic body size

Metabolic water

Metabolizable energy

Minimum culling level

Modified live vaccine

Morbidity-beef cattle

Mortality rate-beef cattle

Natural Resources Conservation Service

Near Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy

Necropsy-beef cattle

Net energy for maintenance

Net energy for production

Neutral detergent fiber

Nitrogen-carbon balance

Non-point pollution

Nutrient-beef cattle

Nutrient/calorie ratio

Nutrient density

Nutrient management plan

Nutritional stress

Offal

Outcrossing-beef cattle

Overeating disease

Parasite-beef cattle

Parity-beef cattle

Parturient paresis

Parturition-beef cattle

Pasture rotation

Pedigree-beef cattle

Performance test

Positive controls

Postgastric fermentation

Postpartum interval

Preconditioning

Pregastric fermentation

Process verified program

Production testing

Progeny testing-beef cattle

Progesterone-beef cattle

Protein efficiency ratio

Protein sparing action

Protein supplement

Qualitative traits-beef cattle

Quantitative trait locus

Quality System Assessment Program

Radio frequency identification

Realized heritability

Reciprocal recurrent selection

Rectal prolapse

Recurrent selection

Reproduction-beef cattle

Retained placenta

Scale-beef cattle

Scours-beef cattle

Scrotal circumference

Seminal vesicles

Seminiferous tubules

Sigmoid flexure

Specific combining ability

Structural soundness

Tandem selection

Thermoneutral zone

Total mixed ration

Transgenic animals

Ultrasound

Undegradable intake protein

United States Department of Agriculture

United States Forest Service

Urinary calculi

Vitamin precursors

Volatile fatty acids (VFA)

Weaning-beef cattle

Weaning weight EPD

White muscle disease

Withdrawal time

Yearling weight EPD

Yield-beef cattle

Zone of thermoneutrality

Zoonotic Diseases

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