Definition of feedlot
: a plot of land on which livestock are fattened for market
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Dozens of semitrailer trucks carry cattle daily from Simplot’s Grand View feedlot to the new CS Beef Packers plant in Kuna.
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Measuring levels of the gas can indicate the size of herds in areas where shelters block visual checks, such as dairy farms or feedlots, said Yotam Ariel, Bluefield's founder and chief executive officer.
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Measuring levels of the gas can indicate the size of herds in areas where shelters block visual checks, such as dairy farms or feedlots, said Yotam Ariel, Bluefield’s founder and chief executive officer.
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As the concept grew, so did the size of Monforts’ feedlot.
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When Urwiler tore out the feedlot grove in 2013 to put up a machine shed, Carson was only 8.
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The elder Monfort pioneered the feedlot concept in the 1930s.
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But feedlot systems are notorious for producing hydrogen sulfide and polluting waterways with animal waste, ammonia, pathogens, and antibiotics.
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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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