feedlot

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Recent Examples of feedlot By doing this, Our Home Place aims to cut out the need for industrial feedlots, allowing farmers to sustain their animals on their own land. Keith Pandolfi, Saveur, 15 May 2024 Nothing would shrink the American appetite for meat more quickly than if more people could visit feedlots, or kill floors in a slaughterhouse. Julian Sancton, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Apr. 2024 Ranchers who kept their cattle concentrated in feedlots and dairy farms may be less affected, Miller anticipated. Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 3 Mar. 2024 Although the Panhandle has more than 85% of the state’s herd, most are in feedlots and dairies that were not damaged. Sean Murphy, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2024 See all Example Sentences for feedlot 
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Noun
  • During a collapse, ranch members would come here to survey for threats.
    Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The reality series about the lives of young staff members working at the Circle Bar Dude ranch in Montana debuted to 130,000 total viewers on Sept. 23, and averaged 160K over three airings —representing just 35% retention of Superman & Lois‘ audience.
    Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 30 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The Klan organized a boycott of her stockyard, forcing the business to close. After 1964, Mars largely stopped taking photos but remained obsessed with the murders.
    Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Upscale apartments and condos now stand on the site of once-bustling stockyards.
    Troy Aidan Sambajon, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • Purdy passed for 353 yards and two touchdowns with no turnovers.
    Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
  • Lamar Jackson is 10 of 14 for 71 yards and a score.
    NBC News, NBC News, 8 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • As lack of rainfall wreaks havoc on plant life, the Samburu people struggle to find grazing pasture for their cattle.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Based on a study published in Nature Sustainability a few months ago, 1.4 million hectares (the equivalent of nine cities the size of Greater London) were deforested in 2015 to open space for pasture for cows to graze.
    Simi Thambi​, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024

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“Feedlot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/feedlot. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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