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feedlot

[feed-lot] / ˈfidˌlɒt /
NOUN
barnyard
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Jake Wolfinger, 45, has been weathering the downturn at his feedlot near Lexington, Nebraska.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

The feedlot company is selling for all-time high prices, but it also has to pay them 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

Lapaseotes was accused of not having a bill of sale for about 460 of her own calves before moving them from her ranch to her family’s feedlot, one of the largest in Nebraska.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025

The feedlot appeared suddenly, but the stench of the place had been rising for more than a mile.

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

An additional 15 strains came from feedlots and agricultural soils affected by herbicide use.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 2026

The company is shifting cattle deliveries from feedlots where livestock are fattened to its other large processing facilities across the U.S., such as Grand Island, Neb., and Cactus, Texas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 16, 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

Even if animals can’t suffer like human beings, there is no excuse for the cruelty that goes on in our factory farms and feedlots.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan


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