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stockyard

noun

as in feedlot

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Recent Examples of stockyard Hit the Hay Western ranchers start to get their fill of deer this month as herds of whitetails, mule deer and even elk descend from neighboring public land on second-cutting alfalfa bales stored in stockyards. —

Outdoor Life, 19 Nov. 2019 Refrigerated trucking gave stockyard owners the flexibility to move wherever business conditions suited, which frequently meant anonymous, horizontal structures in the countryside. —

Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023 Its railroads, lumberyards, and stockyards were booming, its businessmen prospering. —

Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023 At a stockyard beneath the bleachers, some cowhands cooked fish for breakfast just after sunrise. —

Jes Aznar Mike Ives, New York Times, 26 June 2023 See all Example Sentences for stockyard

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For example, a feedlot manager could hold off on cleaning big manure piles, which kicks up ammonia, or change their pen cleaning schedules until the storm passes, Collett said.

Noelle Phillips, The Denver Post, 8 Sep. 2024
His main opponents are former LaTurner staffer Jeff Kahrs, a veteran of both state and federal government who's self-funded more than two-thirds of the $433,000 he's raised, and rancher and feedlot owner Shawn Tiffany, a political newcomer who's raised almost $379,000.

Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2024