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How advances in animal efficiency and management have affected beef cattle’s water intensity in the United States: 1991 compared to 2019
Updating the static model by Beckett and Oltjen (1993), we determined that from 1991 to 2019, U.S. beef cattle blue water consumption per kg of beef decreased by 37.6%. Total water use for the U.S. cattle herd decreased by 29%. As with the 1993 model, blue water use included direct water intake by a...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2022
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9667972/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36063042 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jas/skac297 |