: a plot of land on which livestock are fattened for market
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In California, which holds around 6% of the U.S. cattle population, around 10% of those animals are maintained in feedlots.
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Arturo MacIas Franco, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2025
Discussions within the city’s internal management team have not revealed any negative impacts from the feedlot expansion thus far, Hutchinson Planning and Zoning Director Dan Jochum said.
—Janean Sorrell, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
The feedlots have the specifications of how much corn to feed their crops down to a science.
—Katie Bernard, Kansas City Star, 16 Jan. 2025
But, after farmers and feedlot managers in northwest Kansas asked for more control over pumping limits, the Legislature passed a new law in 2012 that would allow irrigators to set limits and mandate conservation: Local Enhanced Management Areas, or LEMAs.
—Daniel Desrochers, Kansas City Star, 16 Jan. 2025
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Arturo MacIas Franco, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2025
Discussions within the city’s internal management team have not revealed any negative impacts from the feedlot expansion thus far, Hutchinson Planning and Zoning Director Dan Jochum said.
—Janean Sorrell, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
The feedlots have the specifications of how much corn to feed their crops down to a science.
—Katie Bernard, Kansas City Star, 16 Jan. 2025
But, after farmers and feedlot managers in northwest Kansas asked for more control over pumping limits, the Legislature passed a new law in 2012 that would allow irrigators to set limits and mandate conservation: Local Enhanced Management Areas, or LEMAs.
—Daniel Desrochers, Kansas City Star, 16 Jan. 2025
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feedlot
noun
feed·lot
ˈfēd-ˌlät 
: a plot of land on which livestock are fattened for market
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