feedlot
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Experts speculated that dry-lot cows can’t sweat as freely as free-range cows, and that weather and feedlot conditions contributed to deadly heat exhaustion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2026
Jake Wolfinger, a feedlot owner near Lexington, moves cattle between feedyards in brand-inspected and non-brand-inspected areas of Nebraska.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025
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
Grazing cattle also produce more methane than feedlot cattle or dairy cows because they eat more fiber from grass.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 2, 2024
He’d put on a couple of hundred pounds since I’d seen him last, which of course was the whole point of the feedlot.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
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
Together, farms like these confine over 1.7 billion farm animals in large buildings or feedlots and produce 941 billion pounds of manure, according to a report by Food and Water Watch.
From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2024
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
