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Bovine herd drops 3%

12/12/2008

The Brazilian Geography and Statistics Institute (IBGE) has released information showing a 3% reduction of the country's herd between 2006 and 2007, from 205.9 million cattle to 199.7 million.Octávio Costa de Oliveira, husbandry manager at IBGE, has explained that the drop shows the impact of the slaughter of cows at reproductive age, a practice...

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