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Animal unit (AU)

A unit of measurement for animals in any feeding operation. This measure expresses the size of the animal feeding operation (AFO). One beef cow is equal to 1 animal unit. Different types of animals or feeding operations use different multipliers and ratios.

Added: Wed Jul 18 2007
Last Modified: Fri Sep 21 2007

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