Feedlots Around the Globe: Where the World Finishes its Cattle

While U.S. cattle herd size contracts, feedlot sectors in South America, Africa, and Australia expand, reshaping where the ...
Capital Press

Space at the inn is limited at feedlots

Meatpacking plant closures and slowdowns due to the COVID-19 pandemic have market-ready cattle overstaying their welcome in feedlots and crowding out newcomers. Placements into feedlots in April were ...
National Review

Do Happier Cows Come from Feedlots?

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AG Week

More cattle placed in U.S. feedlots in March than expected

CHICAGO - The number of cattle placed in U.S. feedlots last month was higher than expected due to an increase in the number of cattle that had grazed on pastures over the past few months, a government ...
Los Angeles Times

Foul state of affairs found in feedlots

Growing so large that they are now called factory farms, livestock feedlots are poorly regulated, pose health and ecological dangers and are responsible for deteriorating quality of life in America’s ...
Post-Bulletin

Modern feedlots are complex operations

BLOOMING PRAIRIE — On a tour of a hog feedlot, the first thing evident is how neat, clean and efficient the facility is. "Keeping yourself clean is the name of the game," said 24-year-old barn owner ...
The Journal

Feedlots show increase in cattle inventory

The United States Cattle on Feed report indicated an increase in inventory, as reported Nov. 17 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service. The report comes from ...
The Gazette

Beef feedlots grapple with never-ending waste

You think you deal with a lot of bull crap? Allan Sents needs a front-end loader and a dump truck to deal with all the cattle manure he's up against. Literally. Sents and his wife Deanna co-own ...
The Texas Observer

You can't take drone photos of feedlots in Texas. That might violate the First Amendment.

Close up, a feedlot cow is a sight to behold: It’s a hulking, broad-shouldered eating machine with a three-foot-long tongue and a jaw that never seems to stop chewing. At just 20 months old, one of ...
inforum

Clay residents push for better limits on feedlots

A Lake Park, Minn., farmer says Clay County needs a new ordinance to better regulate the number of animals that reside on property in the county. Amos Baer, owner of Baer Poultry Co., said the ...
AG Week

More cattle placed in U.S. feedlots in June than expected

CHICAGO - More cattle than anticipated were placed in U.S. feedlots last month versus a year earlier, a government report showed on Friday, after animals that had grazed on lush pastures for several ...