feedlot

Definition of feedlotnext

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Recent Examples of feedlot An increase in beef imports from Brazil, like President Donald Trump encouraged last week by slashing tariffs on the South American country, may help insulate consumers while ranchers and feedlots struggle with high costs and falling prices. Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 25 Nov. 2025 That's because a majority of cattle ranchers in the state operate on a cow-calf model, where a permanent herd of beef cows raise calves from birth to weaning before the calves are sold to other operations, including feedlots. Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 3 Nov. 2025 That results in less milk yield for dairy cows and less beef yields from feedlot cattle. ArsTechnica, 18 Sep. 2025 Such systems exemplify how geography and resource optimization can support sustainable meat production, especially in feedlots. Arturo MacIas Franco, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for feedlot
Recent Examples of Synonyms for feedlot
Noun
  • The property, near Saguaro National Park East, offers villas that are perfect for bigger groups, as well as four Conestoga wagons with pillow-top beds, air conditioning and access to the ranch’s amenities.
    Catherine Garcia, TheWeek, 27 Apr. 2026
  • According to his sister La Toya Jackson in her 2011 book Starting Over, the ranch served to recapture the typical childhood that the singer never got to live out.
    Nicole Briese, PEOPLE, 26 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Here, rather like the Chicago stockyards, thousands of dairy cows are fed in crowded feedlots by a method called intensive and dry-lot feeding, or, alternately, kept indoors in barns.
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Many national stockyards and stock shows closed in the 1970s, making Denver’s more attractive but also forcing producers to think about the value of large-scale animal gatherings, Fessenden said.
    John Wenzel, Denver Post, 7 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Two nights earlier in Pittsburgh, in a game to decide the AFC North, the Ravens had appeared headed for the playoffs thanks to Jackson’s late heroics before rookie Tyler Loop sprayed a 44-yard field goal attempt on the final play.
    Michael Silver, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Already ongoing for days ahead of the visit, discussions about handling security intensified after a heavily armed man sprinted through security and got yards away from the banquet hall crowded with about 2,000 journalists, federal officials and celebrities before he was tackled to the ground.
    Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 26 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The adjacent landscape of overgrown pastures was a mix of coniferous and deciduous trees, with enough space between to allow blueberries to spread.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The neighborhood The Domaine is only 10 minutes down the road from A Mandria, accessed via a discreet gate and unfolding through peaceful pastures, maquis, and holm oak to the glorious curve of golden sand that is the Grande Plage d’Erbaghju.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2026

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“Feedlot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/feedlot. Accessed 3 May. 2026.

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