feedlot

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New technologies could place e-nose sensors on the wall or ceiling of a barn or feedlot to measure emissions and allow people to respond in real time.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

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 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

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

Basically, almost all of the cattle in the feedlot are sick.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan