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Feedlots have about half the environmental footprint of local "free range" farms.
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Feedlots have gotten huge, with capacities of over 500,000 head, an "achievement" unimaginable in the 1940's.
Paul Schwennesen: Too Big Has Failed... Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party Are Similar Paul Schwennesen 2011
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Feedlots, where cattle are fattened, generally are privately held operations concentrated mostly in Nebraska, Kansas and Texas.
Rising Cattle, Feed Costs May Strain Producer Profits Lester Aldrich 2010
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Feedlots and landfills will capture methane to help power the rural economy.
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Feedlots, as we have seen, are cruel, rank and disease prone.
Jessica Catto: As Long as We Are Ringing in the New, Go Whole Hog -- And Even Cow 2009
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Feedlots are buying fewer cattle from ranchers, who in turn are selling their breeding cows for slaughter, which means fewer calves in the future.
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Feedlots and dairies are built near ethanol plants to use the solid waste as feed for the pigs andcows.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Ethanol Is Bad for Water Supplies Too: 2007
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Feedlots have a problem with the current legislation, as the branding of weaners reduces the value of the hides.
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Feedlots buy year-old animals that weigh 500 pounds 227 kilograms to 800 pounds, called feeders.
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Feedlots in the U.S. bought 5.9 percent fewer cattle in December than a year earlier, the biggest drop since May, after a drought reduced available supply in Texas, the top producing state, the government said Jan. 20.
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