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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for feedlot
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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
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Euphoria’s third season ends on a shot of the Miller family ranch.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
1 June 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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Officials said one of the officers allegedly lit a battery of fireworks about 200 yards from the horses, the outlet reported.—
Bonny Chu,
FOXNews.com,
1 June 2026
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Today, the village is separated from the mainland by about 660 yards of shimmering turquoise water where fishermen paddle on homemade rafts.—
Tommy Trenchard,
NPR,
31 May 2026
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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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Beekeepers now crisscross the country in semi-trucks to pollinate our crops, towing thousands of bee colonies from one blooming pasture to the next like cattle ranchers on wheels.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 May 2026
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“Feedlot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/feedlot. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.
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