feedlot
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She says that while the feedlot companies are currently selling cattle at record prices, they are having to buy them at all-time highs in the first place.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
And they soon embraced mechanized milking and the feedlot model to up their yield.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2026
Jake Wolfinger has for years loaded trucks with the 5,000 cattle on his feedlot for the seven-mile trip to Tyson’s Lexington plant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025
Kebreab said that daily feeding of pasture-based cattle is more difficult than feedlot or dairy cows because they often graze far from ranches for long periods.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 2, 2024
Before being put on this strange diet, new arrivals to the feedlot are treated to a few days of fresh long-stemmed hay.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
At around six-months-old they are bought by companies that run feedlots – large yards where the animals are fattened on corn and other grains for the final three to six months of their lives.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
An additional 15 strains came from feedlots and agricultural soils affected by herbicide use.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 2026
Here, rather like the Chicago stockyards, thousands of dairy cows are fed in crowded feedlots by a method called intensive and dry-lot feeding, or, alternately, kept indoors in barns.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2026
Feeders are ranchers who own feedlots where they fatten cattle and sell them to meatpackers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025
But Naylor’s farm is one link in a chain that includes fossil fuels, artificial fertilizer, pesticides, heavy machinery, feedlots, antibiotics, and processing plants.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
