feedlot
Americannoun
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feedlots
plural
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a plot of ground, often near a stockyard, where livestock are gathered to be fattened for market.
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a commercial establishment that operates a feedlot.
noun
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Origin of 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
Truckers, feedlot operators and cattle ranchers face hits to their bottom line without the Lexington facility, which slaughters up to 5,000 cattle a day.
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
Most people can eat feedlot meat because they just don’t know where it comes from.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
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
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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