feedlot

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Recent Examples of feedlot An increase in beef imports from Brazil, like President Donald Trump encouraged last week by slashing tariffs on the South American country, may help insulate consumers while ranchers and feedlots struggle with high costs and falling prices. Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 25 Nov. 2025 That's because a majority of cattle ranchers in the 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. Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 3 Nov. 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 See All Example Sentences for feedlot
Recent Examples of Synonyms for feedlot
Noun
  • Designed by Uruguayan architect Carlos Ott and opened in 2010, Playa Vik was conceived as the coastal counterpart to Extrancia Vik, a horse ranch concept up in the hills north of José Ignacio.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026
  • Euphoria’s third season ends on a shot of the Miller family ranch.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 1 June 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • His introduction came at age 10, when RAGBRAI, which is an acronym for the Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa, passed through his hometown of Oelwein (a town with a population of fewer than 6,000), filling yards with tents and strangers.
    Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 June 2026
  • The zoo says that the facility would be about 50 yards from some of its animals and that the noise could disturb its residents, including a leap of leopards that hail originally from Southeast Asia.
    David Ingram, NBC news, 6 June 2026
Noun
  • The area Tipperary’s pasture-rich Golden Vale is on the doorstep and many of the growers and artisanal producers offer tours and tastings.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026
  • The issues have also extended to the cattle industry due to poor rangeland and pasture conditions as a result of the dry conditions, Riddey said.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 28 May 2026

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“Feedlot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/feedlot. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.

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