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UNDERSTANDING HORMONE USE IN BEEF CATTLE
UNDERSTANDING HORMONE USE IN beef CATTLE . Q&A By Dan Loy, beef specialist Iowa State University Extension QWhy do CATTLE farmers use hormones or growth promotants in modern beef farming? Most of the beef in the United States today is grain-fed or cause aggressive behavior and injury to themselves and oth- grain-finished. Consumers of beef in the United States tra- ers. But these hormones cause bulls to grow faster, produce ditionally have preferred the tender beef from young steers more muscle and protein and deposit less fat than steers. and heifers. These CATTLE spend most of their lives grazing on Heifers also produce hormones, but young heifers produce grass in pastures but are finished for the last 120-200 days much less than older or pregnant heifers. Providing small in a feeding operation where they are fed a balanced diet amounts of these or similar hormones to young steers and of grains, harvested forages, and nutrient supplements (vi- heifers allows them to regain some of the growth rate of bulls tamins and minerals).
Q Gandhi, Renu and Suzanne Snedeker. 2000. Consumer Concerns about Hormones in Food. Cornell University Program on Breast Can-cer and Environmental Risk Factors in New York State.
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