Animal Unit definition

Animal Unit means a unit of measure used to compare differences in the production of animal manure and set forth in Minn. R. 7020.0300, subp. 5.

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Animal Unit means the same as defined in section 459.102.

Animal Unit means a unit of measure used to determine the total number of single animal types or combination of animal types, as specified in s. NR 243.11 and NR 243.05, that are at an animal feeding operation.

Examples of Animal Unit in a sentence

• Animal Unit Month (AUM) calculations will be based the Animal Unit definition table in the ROA (Exhibit 3).

• Prolonged drought can harm Work with agency specialists to incorporate a drought Maintains or reduces Describe if Animal Unit plants important to sage-grouse, management component into grazing plan, considering the potential loss of sage- Months or season of use reducing sage-grouse habitat needs of sage-grouse (e.g., stocking conservatively, destocking grouse habitat, changed as a result of drought.

• Livestock grazing is allowed at 270 Animal Unit Months (AUM’s) as per Exhibit D of the BCCE.

• An Animal Unit Month (“AUM”) is the amount of forage required by an animal unit for 1 month.

• Grazing may occur on the property no earlier than May 15 and all cattle must be removed by October 15, or once the number of allotted Animal Unit Months (AUMs) is consumed.

More Definitions of Animal Unit

Animal Unit means the equivalent of 1,000 pounds of animal.

Animal Unit means one mature beef cow of approximately 1,000 pounds and a calf (up to 6 months old).

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Animal Unit means 1,000 pounds of live animal weight.

Animal Unit means a unit of measurement for any animal feeding operation calculated as per the Utah Administrative Code (UAC) R317-8-3.5 and used to determine if an operation meets the definition of a concentrated animal feeding operation.

Animal Unit means one mature 1,000 pound cow and the cow's suckling calf.

Animal Unit means “Animal Unit” as defined by the United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service, and is approximately 1,000 lbs. "average" live body weight.