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A Glossary of Australian Agricultural and Farm Business Terms
| Yak |
Slang term for Bos indicus cattle. |
| Yarding |
Putting sheep
or cattle into yards (usually with a dog or team of dogs). |
| Yards |
Stockyards designed for working
stock-drafting etc. |
| Yearling |
An animal between 1 and 2 years of
age. See Meat Terminology |
| Yield |
(a) The quantity of a product in a
given space and/or time.
(b) The harvested portion of a product. Syn. production,
total annual yield or turnoff
(c)The percentage
saleable meat (red meat with an acceptable fat cover) in a beef
carcass.
style=""> Normally ranges from 50 to
70%.
(d)Proportion
of useable fibre present in a lot of greasy wool expressed as a
percentage. style=""> Though
common usage implies a washing yield, several types of standard are in
commercial use being wool base yield, clean wool content yield, and
both a theoretical and commercial top
and noil yield. See Wool base |
| Yield Prophet® |
An on-line crop production model designed to provide
grain growers with real-time information about the crop during growth.
It uses the computer simulation model APSIM together with paddock
specific soil, crop and climate data to generate information about the
likely outcomes of farming decisions. |
| Yolk |
1. The yellow
part of an egg
2.Natural
impurities of wool (wax and suint)
secreted by glands attached to the wool follicle. |
| Yolk Stain |
A stain in wool
caused by pigment from the yolk |
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