Animal husbandry
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Animal husbandry is the branch of agriculture concerned with the human practices of raising captive or domesticated animals for harvesting valuable animal products or to train animals to provide labou
Cattle feedlot in Colorado, United States
The domestication of ruminants, like these fat-tailed sheep in Afghanistan, provided nomads across the Middle East and central Asia with a reliable source of food.
Milking cattle in ancient Egypt
Shepherd with sheep in woven hurdle pen. Medieval France. 15th century, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 195
Agriculture
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Agriculture is the practice of cultivating the soil, planting, raising, and harvesting both food and non-food crops, as well as livestock production. Broader definitions also include forestry and aqua
Animal husbandry
…Animal husbandry is the branch of agriculture concerned with the human practices of raising captive or domesticated animals for harvesting valuable animal products or to train animals to provide…
Modern agriculture: a center pivot irrigation system on a field
Centres of origin, as numbered by Nikolai Vavilov in the 1930s Area 3 is no longer recognized as a center of origin. New Guinea (area P) was identified more recently.
Agricultural scenes of threshing, a grain store, harvesting with sickles, digging, tree-cutting and ploughing from ancient Egypt. Tomb of Nakht, 15th century BC
Agricultural calendar, c. 1470, from a manuscript of Pietro de Crescenzi