How to Use feedlot in a Sentence

feedlot

noun
  • As the concept grew, so did the size of Monforts’ feedlot.
    Sam Brasch, The Seattle Times, 8 Dec. 2017
  • The feedlot would produce close to 40 tons of manure per day.
    Max Londberg, kansascity, 3 Apr. 2018
  • But that might not be feasible across the hundreds of acres of a feedlot.
    New York Times, 20 Oct. 2020
  • In time, the family left the feedlot business and moved south to Krum, north of Dallas.
    Melissa Lyttle, Smithsonian, 13 Dec. 2017
  • Most beef sold in stores spends its last days on feedlots where it's fed grain before slaughter.
    Weldon B. Johnson, azcentral, 22 May 2018
  • Jimmy lived on a feedlot with his wife and young son, Trevor, in the Texas Panhandle town of Gruver.
    Melissa Lyttle, Smithsonian, 13 Dec. 2017
  • His dreams were short-lived; a feedlot expanded next door.
    azcentral, 15 May 2015
  • In the late 1990s, there was still a feedlot operating just east of Greeley.
    Greeley Tribune, The Denver Post, 5 Feb. 2017
  • Ranchers in places like Hereford, Texas and Beaver, Okla. are already selling their herds to feedlots, girding for the drought.
    Jim Carlton, WSJ, 13 May 2018
  • Near Kerman, drivers will surely notice the huge cattle feedlot on the east side of I-5.
    Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 29 Feb. 2020
  • During the dry season, move the cattle to feedlots while the pasture is fertilized.
    Paulo Trevisani, WSJ, 19 May 2018
  • Drive past any feedlot, and the smell alone will warn you it’s no beacon of sustainability.
    Jan Dutkiewicz, Wired, 7 Aug. 2020
  • The elder Monfort pioneered the feedlot concept in the 1930s.
    Sam Brasch, The Seattle Times, 8 Dec. 2017
  • Live cattle refer to cows that have been fattened at feedlots to a suitable heft for slaughter.
    WSJ, 1 June 2023
  • The animals are available for adoption, but most go to long-term storage on feedlots and in pastures.
    New York Times, 25 May 2018
  • To alter cows’ diets on a large scale, the algae would need to be used on feedlots, where cows spend their final months before slaughter.
    Brian Kateman, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Emergency services for the region of Murcia say that 1,036 pigs died late on Friday in the fire that engulfed a roofed feedlot filled with pig pens.
    Associated Press, Washington Post, 27 May 2017
  • These days, Mercer buys skinny, sickly cows, feeds them for a few months on hay in a covered feedlot, and resells them at a profit.
    Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Most of the problem stems from just a few kinds of places: natural gas wells and pipelines, cattle feedlots, coal mines, rice paddies, and landfills.
    Zachary Mider, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The track and its extensive set of miniature stores, railroad stations, mountain hamlets and feedlots was built by Thomas, who died in 1985.
    Kathy Routliffe, chicagotribune.com, 29 May 2018
  • Stateside, in the birthplace of the CAFO and the industrial feedlot, the situation is likewise dire.
    Jan Dutkiewicz, The New Republic, 20 Oct. 2022
  • The steaks of the future, we are promised, will be indistinguishable from the finest Wagyu or Black Angus of our dreams, though not one heifer will be slaughtered and not one acre of land spoiled by a feedlot.
    Nathaniel Rich, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2021
  • The roots of this tremendous carbon footprint have been traced to the adoption of beef grading in the mid-20th century and the ensuing rise of industrial feedlots, first in the U.S. and then around the world.
    Katherine Ott, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 June 2023
  • The animals had been bought in February with the goal of fattening them until October, when they would be sold to a feedlot.
    New York Times, 25 Aug. 2021
  • Situated close by is a wastewater-treatment plant and a feedlot.
    Michael Holtz, The Atlantic, 14 June 2021
  • As a farm marketer for Cargill, Mr. Mathias worked out purchase deals with farmers, funneling their crops to Cargill’s grain bins and cattle feedlots.
    Jacob Bunge, WSJ, 15 Aug. 2018
  • To find out whether that genetic souvenir has any effect on today's animals, James Derr led a study of bison living in the wild and on a feedlot.
    Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 16 Aug. 2012
  • The feedlot company has denied the allegations and vowed to disprove them.
    Joe Rubino, The Denver Post, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Buckeye was founded as an agricultural colony in the late nineteenth century, and the portion of the city nearest the Gila River is still dominated by feedlots and cotton farms.
    Kyle Paoletta, The New Republic, 30 Oct. 2023
  • That method has led to abuses in places such as Laramie County, where several feedlots have operated unauthorized wells that pump significant volumes of water.
    Dionne Searcey, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2023

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