feedlot
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The Wolfingers bought a dilapidated feedlot in 2010, which they have turned into a sophisticated operation with 5,500 cattle.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
Jake Wolfinger, 45, has been weathering the downturn at his feedlot near Lexington, Nebraska.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
And they soon embraced mechanized milking and the feedlot model to up their yield.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2026
Brad Foote, a feedlot operator in western Nebraska with 62,000 cattle, considers brand rules “a tax with no benefit.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025
I asked the feedlot manager why they didn’t just use the liquid manure as fertilizer on neighboring farms.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
The ranch is nestled in a corner of Nebraska that's home to rolling green hills under sweeping Midwestern skies, the landscape dotted with grain silos and feedlots alongside fields and fields of bovines.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
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
They are sold to feedlots that fatten them up before being shipped to slaughterhouses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 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
The feedlots are also breeding grounds for new and deadly bacteria.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
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