beef cattle

noun, cows raised for beef; see also beef cows

“We been farming for twenty years. Beef cattle mostly, and veal calves.”

“He’d sometimes keep some beef cattle in there in the spring when they were calving.”

“Oh yeah, that’s beef cattle. Beef cattle I had then. Yeah.”

“We run about thirty beef cattle, beef calf operation.”

“The farm, pretty much… It became a place for the horses and some of Dad’s beef cattle, but it wasn’t what it was.”

“Dairy cattle, yeah. Only one in dairy. The other three boys have beef cattle.”

“We got rid of the milk cows, bought some beef cows or more or less traded for beef cattle, I guess. That’s the way we done it.”

“So you guys said you farmed this whole area. What did you farm?”
“Milk cows. And then when Tom went on the boat, we went into beef cattle.”

“He milked cows for a while. I don’t know how long he did before I came along, but about two years after we were married he sold his quota and the cows, and he had beef cattle for quite a while.”

“Beef cattle, they usually stay outside.”
“They’re easier, especially if you’re working out. You can feed them once a day and water them whenever.”

“Beef cattle, you don’t milk them. Ah, dairy cattle, you’ve got to milk them twice a day, and you’ve got to be there twice a day, seven days a week. Where with beef cattle, you can feed them, and as long as they got feed and water, they’re fine.”