| In a feedlot, lots of animals deposit their manure on a small amount of bare land. |
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| Likewise, feedlot operators will be able to feed rations matched to an animal's economic promise. |
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| Send yearlings to the feedlot early and curtail replacement heifer production for a year. |
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| Erickson et al. conducted two feeding trials to evaluate the P requirements of steers brought into the feedlot as yearlings or calves. |
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| Grid prices and feed costs alter target composition and marketing date of feedlot cattle. |
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| Forage systems ended either September 1 or November 23, at which time the cattle were placed in the feedlot for finishing. |
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| After each grazing phase was completed, cattle were finished in a western Oklahoma feedlot. |
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| What if a feedlot were implanted with the virus causing foot-and-mouth disease, anthrax, or Mad Cow disease? |
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| Gardner et al. found significant feedlot and carcass performance benefits and lower medicine costs from preconditioning. |
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| Supplementing vitamin E at greater than recommended levels has improved health in feedlot cattle. |
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| By not finishing animals in a feedlot, there are no feedlot-related illnesses, and so there's less need for medications. |
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| But when animals are close together in a feedlot, there is enough concentration of ammonia emissions that some of it can travel farther afield. |
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| Solid feedlot manure may be unevenly applied, for example in large frozen lumps that later may cause planter skips. |
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| We have a small feedlot, and we've actually had to destock because it has been dry. |
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| And the trend in some parts of the world is towards huge, high-tech, intensive feedlot dairy farming with no place for sentiment and nostalgia. |
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| Feeding cull cows a feedlot diet for a period of time before selling may improve quality of animals and overall profitability. |
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| A total of 80 cull cows from four ranches were received at a commercial feedlot near Miles City, MI, in mid-November. |
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| Increased gain from supplementing yearling steers DDGS while grazing summer range did not affect feedlot performance and can be economical. |
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| In April, half the steers were sent to a feedlot in Steele's Tavern, while the rest stayed in West Virginia to graze rotationally. |
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| On the date of harvest, steers were transported to a commercial packing plant 34 km from the experimental feedlot. |
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| After completion of the grazing phase, the steers were shipped by truck to a commercial feedlot in the panhandle of Oklahoma. |
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| The collection points should be typical for the feedlot and should exclude areas that won't be removed during yard cleanup. |
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| Having to track these cattle in the feedlot will add costs to American feeders and farmers. |
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| The updated and improved RC 150 reel commercial mixer has been redesigned and tested for the most demanding large feedlot and dairy applications. |
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| But to qualify, cattle, hog and sheep producers as well as feedlot operators must meet some new requirements. |
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| It's not realistic, or desirable, to imagine swapping out all the feedlot beef for grass-fed beef. |
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| His son, Eddie, independently backgrounds about 250 head of stocker cattle each year and finishes them in a 4,400-head feedlot that he manages for a different owner. |
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| Over three-fourths of the beef calves produced in the US will be used as stocker calves to graze pastures prior to entering the feedlot for finishing. |
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| These rules only apply to those feedlot operators that are considered, for income tax purposes, to be farming. |
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| Enhanced immune function was not equivocal in beef feedlot steers. |
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| Find out about alternative financing solutions to purchase livestock or construct feedlot facilities. |
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| Forget those fifty stars, all crowed into a corner like swine in a feedlot. |
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| A statistically significant increase in nitrophilous lichen coverage was observed on trees near feedlot operations when compared to trees located at a greater distance. |
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| Epp et al. collected blood samples from steers at feedlot arrival and at the onset of bulling behavior to assess circulating hormone concentrations. |
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| I heard people talk about the capital involved in, for instance, a feedlot operation. |
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| More than 13percentt of feedlot cattle are found at slaughter to have abscessed livers. |
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| One of the most innovative projects the Lynns have taken on is the construction of a bio-gas plant that will process manure from the feedlot. |
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| If an animal happens to have that in a feedlot, it can be treated with antibiotics. |
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| They also work on them: a single feedlot can employ 700 pairs of hands. All this is now under threat, however. |
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| If you are a custom feedlot operator, do not report your custom feeding expenses on this line. |
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| In addition to his organic crops, Klinge raises non-organic feeder cattle in a small feedlot for Laura's Lean Beef, a natural beef company based in Kentucky. |
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| All roofs that would contribute to runoff from the feedlot should have gutters, downspouts, and outlets that discharge water away from the feedlot. |
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| Knowing the industry, we knew the software had to be simple to use and effective at meeting the everyday challenges of running a feedlot. |
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| In that statement I talked about my good friend, Andrew Duff, a farmer who works on a feedlot in eastern Saskatchewan. |
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| Feeder animals will not be allowed to move from one feedlot to another. |
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| The first two years focused on locating electronic equipment and developing working systems on 11 farms, one lamb feedlot and a federal lamb processor. |
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| In the early years, the products mainly helped feedlot operators with accounting-related functions: identifying billing errors and missed pricing opportunities, and assisting with accurate data collection. |
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| A number of these observational studies are useful for understanding the epidemiology of bacterial diseases in the feedlot and developing hypotheses about alternative disease management strategies. |
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| Focused on improving grasslands and water maintenance, a partnership project on their Chinook feedlot takes feedlot runoff water and filters it naturally to produce a usable clean water commodity. |
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| This investment will help expand the technology being used in this project, which was developed here in Alberta and has proven the ability to digest feedlot manure reliably and at a large scale. |
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| The location and number of hospital pens, as well as how best to move animals requiring treatment for a disease condition through the feedlot, have long been topics of discussion for feedlot managers and veterinarians. |
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| They reported both demasculinised male, and some defeminised female, wild fathead minnows in proximity to cattle feedlot effluent runoff areas. |
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| This study sampled meat taken from grass-fed beef, short-term feedlot beef, and long-term feedlot animals. |
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| The feedlot is near the processing plant so that animals do not have to be transported a long distance. |
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| The number of American cattle kept in confined feedlot conditions fluctuates. |
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| All feeder calves wintered and sold in the spring are stockers, whether they go to grass or to the feedlot. |
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| Vaccinated and unvaccinated high-risk calves were shipped from Arkansas to a New Mexico State University feedlot in Clayton. |
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| The only difference is that private sales of livestock will no longer be permitted at the feedlot. |
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| The idea of a feedlot has been kicked around for more than 30 years by local ranchers and business people, but it took some hard knocks in the industry to get the job done. |
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| I do not know whether my friend had a premonition or what, but he had undergone the old western practice of putting a brand on these cattle before he put them into the feedlot. |
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| Holt worked part time at a cattle feedlot and worked for himself as what is sometimes called a shade-tree mechanic — a car mechanic who does his repairs in his driveway or in a friend's garage or in the shade of a tree. |
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| He's thinking feedlot, but I'm trying to get him to go grass feed. |
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| While there will be a demand for grain and unfattened animals for the feedlot beef industry, this will be with its own limitations and social and environmental impacts. |
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| Effects of dietary zilpaterol hydrochloride on feedlot performance and carcass characteristics of beef steers fed with and without monensin and tylosin. |
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| AoThereAAEs a big difference between grass-fed beef and feedlot beef,Ao said Leclercq, who manages about 250 head of cattle for a Buenos Aires businessman and eats meat daily. |
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| Cheap feed and economies of scale drive the feedlot industry, and the American ethanol boom is bound to tip the scale to the detriment of the feedlot industry in Canada. |
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