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by scoot 2098 days ago
The parent commenter is speaking specifically from experience in Australia.

Since CAFO is a USDA term, I assume your comment (or the source of it) relates to the USA.
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thinkcontext 2098 days ago
A CAFO is a feedlot with 1k+ animal units (1 animal unit = 1 head of beef cattle), Australia has plenty of those. Here's a list of the top 25

https://www.beefcentral.com/top-25-lotfeeders-list/

I believe it is true that cattle get more nutrition from grass in AU than US but I haven't seen numbers that break it down.

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