feedlot

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Recent Examples of feedlot Previous research has shown that seaweed helps cut methane emissions in feedlot cattle and dairy cows. Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Dec. 2024 The imports are primarily feeder cattle destined for U.S. feedlots. Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2024 The water has been used to irrigate a wide variety of crops, including nuts, fruits, tomatoes, cotton and cattle-feed crops to supply dairies and feedlots. Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2024 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 See all Example Sentences for feedlot 
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Noun
  • The family has launched a GoFundMe to keep the ranch afloat.
    Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Situated on 3,800 peaceful wooded acres, it was originally founded in the 1970s to be a working farm, cattle ranch, hunting reserve, and home for an Italian duke and duchess.
    Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 15 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Mars used the inheritance to raise purebred Hereford cattle and to buy a stockyard.
    Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Visitors may choose to attend one of the country's best rodeos and a daily cattle drive through the stockyard district, or one of the nearly 20 theaters with ballet, opera and symphony orchestra concerts.
    Alexis Simmerman, Austin American-Statesman, 16 July 2024
Noun
  • Evans finished with 74 receptions for 1,004 yards and 11 touchdowns.
    Rick Stroud, Orlando Sentinel, 27 Jan. 2025
  • In that game, Hurts completed 27 passes for 304 yards and one touchdown.
    Joel Thayer, Newsweek, 27 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • McEvoy said major changes included reducing the hazard status of irrigated farmland as well as hay and pasture lands.
    Claire Rush, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2025
  • The main thing is that disagreement about what will meet and lead the needs of the consumer is what puts the past and present out to pasture, not protectionism.
    John Tamny, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024

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“Feedlot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/feedlot. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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