Black and White Cow grazes in freshly plowed field Throw Blanket

This photograph was taken along the road side of a farm near Dewitt Iowa. It shows a Black and White Cow Grazing in a freshly harvested Iowa corn field on a cool foggy fall morning. She had lifted her head up to see what this pesky person was looking at. Food is coming out at the sides of her mouth. Probably an annoyance having her meal interrupted a bit, of course she paid no never mind and went back to eating. In the background you can see a radio station with a few satellite dishes, and green, orange and yellow trees scattered through out, showing the promise of fall. Cattle (colloquially cows) are the most common type of large domesticated ungulates. They are a prominent modern member of the subfamily Bovinae, are the most widespread species of the genus Bos, and are most commonly classified collectively as Bos taurus. Cattle are raised as livestock for meat (beef and veal), as dairy animals for milk and other dairy products, and as draught animals (oxen or bullocks) (pulling carts, plows and the like). Other products include leather and dung for manure or fuel. In some regions, such as parts of India, cattle have significant religious meaning. From as few as 80 progenitors domesticated in southeast Turkey about 10,500 years ago, according to an estimate from 2003, there are 1.3 billion cattle in the world. In 2009, cattle became the first livestock animal to have a fully mapped genome.