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Feedlots are audited quarterly and pay an annual fee of about $1 per head of livestock their lot can hold.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025

Feedlots, which buy cattle from ranchers and fatten them for slaughter, are also worried about their businesses.

From Reuters • Sep. 3, 2021

Feedlots also produce a lot of manure and urine — hundreds of thousands of pounds a day of waste at a typical lot like Wrangler.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2020

Feedlots - places where cattle are fattened for slaughter - are common in the US, which is the world's largest beef producer.

From BBC • Jul. 9, 2017

Bejot Feedlots in Nebraska, which feeds Optaflexx to some of its 10,000 cattle, received a call on Thursday from an Elanco sales representative who said supplies of the drug were tightening, Tom Bejot said.

From Reuters • Aug. 23, 2013