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  • noun Plural form of feedlot.

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Examples

  • With grass so plentiful and rich, he told me, animals can produce meat almost as marbled as that of animals finished in feedlots on grain.

    Out of the Frying Pan 2006

  • With grass so plentiful and rich, he told me, animals can produce meat almost as marbled as that of animals finished in feedlots on grain.

    Out of the Frying Pan 2006

  • According to their research, sorghum strips excess nitrogen out of soils with such efficiency that it may solve waste disposal problems for cities and livestock operations (such as feedlots) that generate nitrogen-laden wastes.

    11. Sorghum: Fuel and Utility Types 1996

  • The domestication of various farm animals meant that corresponding industries such as feedlots, animal husbandry and meat processing have also been studied, and developed.

    agriculture+ontario - Google Blog Search admin 2010

  • In the face of rising food prices over the past two years, the government imposed a series of measures, including export limits on agricultural products and subsidies for domestic grain users such as feedlots and dairies.

    CattleNetwork 2008

  • We visited feedlots and fish hatcheries, cheese plants and cracker companies, and wind farms and gas fields.

    WATCH: Hick Keeps Focus On Jobs As He's Sworn In Ethan Axelrod 2011

  • If you keep beef cattle in crowded feedlots and give them high levels of grain in their diets they are very likely to get stressed, reducing their natural immunity to diseases, and increasing the risk of liver abscesses, bloat and acidosis.

    Andrew Gunther: E. Coli and the Misuse of Antibiotics Andrew Gunther 2011

  • If you keep beef cattle in crowded feedlots and give them high levels of grain in their diets they are very likely to get stressed, reducing their natural immunity to diseases, and increasing the risk of liver abscesses, bloat and acidosis.

    Andrew Gunther: E. Coli and the Misuse of Antibiotics Andrew Gunther 2011

  • American cattle producers from Texas to Tennessee ship their herds each summer to the Flint Hills region of Kansas, where the animals bulk up on grass before they're dispatched to feedlots and then slaughtered.

    Range Fires Ignite Dispute Jeffrey Ball 2011

  • We visited feedlots and fish hatcheries, cheese plants and cracker companies, and wind farms and gas fields.

    WATCH: Hick Keeps Focus On Jobs As He's Sworn In Ethan Axelrod 2011

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