Definition of feedlot
:a plot of land on which livestock are fattened for market
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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission alleged that McVean Trading & Investments LLC and its senior executives used trading agreements with feedlots to accumulate bets on cattle futures that circumvented exchange-set limits.
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Emergency services for the region of Murcia say that 1,036 pigs died late on Friday in the fire that engulfed a roofed feedlot filled with pig pens.
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Inspection clears waste pond for Sorrento whey The owner of an Owyhee County feedlot’s dirt pit will stop storing whey byproduct from the Sorrento Lactalis cheese plant in Nampa.
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Inspection clears waste pond for Sorrento whey The owner of an Owyhee County feedlot’s dirt pit will stop storing whey byproduct from the Sorrento Lactalis cheese plant in Nampa.
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Stretching across miles of pastures and feedlots north of Greeley, Colorado, the complex is home to more than 15,000 cows, making it more than a hundred times the size of a typical organic herd.
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In the late 1990s, there was still a feedlot operating just east of Greeley.
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Now, as those cattle have come into maturity and are entering feedlots and the market at large, there has been another dip in cattle prices.
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Most of the beef on Crowd Cow and similar websites is grass-fed, which research has shown has higher levels of healthful omega-3 fatty acids than meat from animals raised on feedlots.
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First Known Use of feedlot
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