feedlot
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
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
What keeps a feedlot animal healthy—or healthy enough— are antibiotics.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
