How to Use feedlot in a Sentence

feedlot

noun
  • Chris Casad worked part-time at a feedlot this winter.
    — Emily Cureton Cook, ProPublica, 26 June 2026
  • That results in less milk yield for dairy cows and less beef yields from feedlot cattle.
    — ArsTechnica, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Most beef sold in stores spends its last days on feedlots where it's fed grain before slaughter.
    — Weldon B. Johnson, azcentral, 22 May 2018
  • One time some of his cows got out from his feedlot up in Gunnison.
    — Stephanie Rivera, NPR, 19 Dec. 2024
  • But that might not be feasible across the hundreds of acres of a feedlot.
    — New York Times, 20 Oct. 2020
  • Tiffany, who co-owns four feedlots in the state, could also try and run to Schmidt’s right.
    — Daniel Desrochers, Kansas City Star, 23 May 2024
  • The feedlot would produce close to 40 tons of manure per day.
    — Max Londberg, kansascity, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Livestock fattens on grass from pasture and the maize‑filled troughs of feedlots.
    — Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Live cattle refer to cows that have been fattened at feedlots to a suitable heft for slaughter.
    — WSJ, 1 June 2023
  • Situated close by is a wastewater-treatment plant and a feedlot.
    — Michael Holtz, The Atlantic, 14 June 2021
  • And feedlot cows are what California has.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2026
  • The animals are available for adoption, but most go to long-term storage on feedlots and in pastures.
    — New York Times, 25 May 2018
  • My past jobs were housekeeper at a feed mill, welder, general laborer for a feedlot.
    — Amy Dickinson, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Sep. 2023
  • During the dry season, move the cattle to feedlots while the pasture is fertilized.
    — Paulo Trevisani, WSJ, 19 May 2018
  • In time, the family left the feedlot business and moved south to Krum, north of Dallas.
    — Melissa Lyttle, Smithsonian, 13 Dec. 2017
  • To alter cows’ diets on a large scale, the algae would need to be used on feedlots, where cows spend their final months before slaughter.
    — Brian Kateman, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Previous research has shown that seaweed helps cut methane emissions in feedlot cattle and dairy cows.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Solid manure from feedlots, poultry houses or composting dairy barns is spread and tilled under.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 15 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • These days, Mercer buys skinny, sickly cows, feeds them for a few months on hay in a covered feedlot, and resells them at a profit.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2021
  • The feedlot company has denied the allegations and vowed to disprove them.
    — Joe Rubino, The Denver Post, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Near Kerman, drivers will surely notice the huge cattle feedlot on the east side of I-5.
    — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 29 Feb. 2020
  • In the late 1990s, there was still a feedlot operating just east of Greeley.
    — Greeley Tribune, The Denver Post, 5 Feb. 2017
  • Jimmy lived on a feedlot with his wife and young son, Trevor, in the Texas Panhandle town of Gruver.
    — Melissa Lyttle, Smithsonian, 13 Dec. 2017
  • Grain-fed cattle — animals that live their final months in a feedlot eating a diet rich in corn and soybeans — have meat that’s higher in oleic acid.
    — Bob Holmes, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2021
  • 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
  • The practice was among the earliest agricultural endeavors, but the bare fields and feedlots of modern farms and ranches have largely swept it away.
    — Brian Barth, Popular Science, 1 Apr. 2020
  • 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
  • The animals had been bought in February with the goal of fattening them until October, when they would be sold to a feedlot.
    — New York Times, 25 Aug. 2021

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