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, 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
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
These days Joe got a lot of his meat precut and packaged from the feedlot up in La Jara, Colorado.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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
The debate has spilled over into the halls of the Nebraska capitol in Lincoln where lawmakers are considering changes, like lowering annual fees feedlots pay to the committee.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025
I had seen the factory farms and feedlots.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
