feedlot

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And they soon embraced mechanized milking and the feedlot model to up their yield.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2026

Producers raise calves on pastures until they are old enough to be sold at auction to a feedlot.

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

Second, it gets the calves, now five or six hundred pounds, ready for life on the feedlot.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan