Beef & Dairy Cattle Industries

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Across
  1. 3. number of days from heat to heat
  2. 6. cuts of meat broken down into retail cuts
  3. 7. fed in addition to grain to calves in feedlots
  4. 9. cattle typically raised in seedstock operations
  5. 10. inflammation of the udder
  6. 16. United States Department of Agriculture
  7. 17. is 283 days long in cattle
  8. 18. cuts of meat purchased by restaurants
  9. 19. the type of operation where most cattle are born
  10. 21. an animal that has four stomach chambers
  11. 22. intramuscular fat used for grading the quality of meat
  12. 23. chemical used to kill bacteria on a cows teats
  13. 24. the third type of operation in the beef cattle production cycle
  14. 25. another term for the days cows are not producing milk
Down
  1. 1. the type of operation that deals with finishing cattle
  2. 2. the cows system that produces milk
  3. 4. the type of operation that deals with improving genetics in herds
  4. 5. is produced by the mammary system
  5. 8. subfamily term for cattle
  6. 9. heat-treating the milk to kill harmful bacteria
  7. 11. is the top producing state of dairy cattle in the United States
  8. 12. ranked number 10 in beef production
  9. 13. 6-8 week old calf meat
  10. 14. beef trimmings and fat mixed together
  11. 15. when cattle have enough fat on their carcass
  12. 20. mothers first milk full of antibodies