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That's because a majority of cattle ranchers in state operate on a cow-calf model, where a permanent herd of beef cows raise calves from birth to weaning before the calves are sold to other operations, including feedlots.
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Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 30 Oct. 2025
That results in less milk yield for dairy cows and less beef yields from feedlot cattle.
—ArsTechnica, 18 Sep. 2025
Such systems exemplify how geography and resource optimization can support sustainable meat production, especially in feedlots.
—Arturo MacIas Franco, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2025
In Kentucky, Mary Berry explained, calves typically stay with their mothers for six months until they’re weaned and shipped off to feedlots.
—Keith Pandolfi, Saveur, 15 May 2024
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Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 30 Oct. 2025
That results in less milk yield for dairy cows and less beef yields from feedlot cattle.
—ArsTechnica, 18 Sep. 2025
Such systems exemplify how geography and resource optimization can support sustainable meat production, especially in feedlots.
—Arturo MacIas Franco, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2025
In Kentucky, Mary Berry explained, calves typically stay with their mothers for six months until they’re weaned and shipped off to feedlots.
—Keith Pandolfi, Saveur, 15 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for feedlot
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Top 5 Can’t Miss Stay the night in a cozy casita at Tubac Golf Resort & Spa, a former cattle ranch.—
Molly Allen,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Mar. 2026
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Written by Sheridan and directed by David Mackenzie, Hell or High Water centers on Texas brothers Toby (Chris Pine) and Tanner Howard (Ben Foster), whose family ranch is being threatened with foreclosure.—
Sezin Devi Keohler,
Entertainment Weekly,
7 Mar. 2026
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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.—
Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Feb. 2026
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Many national stockyards and stock shows closed in the 1970s, making Denver’s more attractive but also forcing producers to think about the value of large-scale animal gatherings, Fessenden said.—
John Wenzel,
Denver Post,
7 Jan. 2026
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Be careful when handling debris that may have blown into your yard.—
KANSAS CITY STAR WEATHER BOT,
Kansas City Star,
15 Mar. 2026
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As the sun set on TPC Sawgrass on Saturday, the actual fairway felt like the least visible sight from the tee box with 462 yards of pond to the players’ left.—
Gabby Herzig,
New York Times,
15 Mar. 2026
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The conservation plan continues the longstanding arrangement that lets local cattlemen use ranch pastures for winter grazing.—
John Burnett,
NPR,
14 Mar. 2026
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Tufts was also likely drawn to the thousands of acres of empty pasture for another reason.—
Caleb Silver,
Southern Living,
12 Mar. 2026
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“Feedlot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/feedlot. Accessed 16 Mar. 2026.
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