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Bookmark or Share- Feedlot - WikipediaA feedlot or feed yard is a type of animal feeding operation (AFO) which is used in intensive animal farming, notably beef cattle, but also swine, horses, sheep, turkeys, chickens or ducks, prior to slaughter.
- Feedlot - an overview | ScienceDirect TopicsFeedlot production represents an intensive confinement system that has high input costs (compared with suckler calf and stocker production) associated with extensive infrastructure, feeding, medical, and labor costs. There are two types of feedlots, outdoor and indoor. The outdoor feedlot is suited for drier climates (Fig. 1.25).
- Cattle Feedlots: What Are They and How Do They Work? - Lazy TFeedlots are the final stage of cattle production. They provide a confined area for feeding steers and heifers a mix of grain, silage, hay, and protein supplement. The goal is to produce beef that will meet the USDA quality grade Select or better for the slaughter market.
- Take a look inside one of the nation’s largest cattle feedlotsThere are 600 pens of cattle here and every pen is checked every day! This feedlot receives about 3,000 head of cattle per week and also sends out about 3,000 to market each week — the beef goes to market for companies like Tyson Foods or JBS Foods, as a couple of examples.
- The Growing Role of the U.S. Feedlot Industry Cattle RangeFeedlot capacity as a percent of total cattle inventories has increased over the past 25 years to a record level of 19.6 percent in 2024 (See Figure 1 above). On average feedlot inventories have averaged about 83 percent of total feedlot capacity over the past 25 years.
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