Sentences with feedlot
feed·lot
F f - Instead of sending them to feedlots to be fattened on grain, farmers are keeping animals home on the range.
- Though excess moisture can create mud pits out of huge feedlots, appropriately scaled feedlots do not develop these problems.
- I spent several years working on this project with a group at the bank who were interested in changing its policy of funding big projects for developing livestock feedlots in developing countries.
- House flies may congregate on the faces of cattle in confined feedlots or dairy pens.
- By not finishing animals in a feedlot, there are no feedlot-related illnesses, and so there's less need for medications.
- Run-off from barnyards, cropland, feedlots, septic tanks, and intensively managed turf areas such as golf courses can introduce large quantities of organic matter and nutrients into a pond.
- Having to track these cattle in the feedlot will add costs to American feeders and farmers.
- Farmers with large livestock feedlots need to recycle voluminous quantities of manure by applying it to their fields as fertilizer.
- Twenty-four-hour surveillance of feedlots has shown that cattle would rather feed at sunset - instead of morning, as is usual.
- The collection points should be typical for the feedlot and should exclude areas that won't be removed during yard cleanup.
- The main issue this research project is dealing with is water contamination from bacteria and nitrogen and phosphorus in manure from about 100 large cattle feedlots in the watershed.
- Livestock feedlots are typically located to utilize natural surface-drainage conditions.
- Locate and design feedlots or barnyards carefully to prevent surface runoff toward well heads and well recharge areas, drainage ditches, or streams.