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  Feedlot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A feedlot or feedyard is a type of concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) which is used for fattening livestock, notably beefcattle, prior to slaughter.
Prior to entering a feedlot, cattle spend most of their life grazing on rangeland or on immature fields of grain such as wheat pasture.
Feedlot diets are usually very dense in food energy, to encourage the deposition of fat, or marbling, in the animal's muscles; this fat is desirable as it leads to 'juiciness' in the resulting meat.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Feedlot   (246 words)

  
 Steele County Feedlot Ordinance
A permit issued by Steele County to construct or expand an animal feedlot or manure storage area that is not a pollution hazard to a capacity of 10 to 299 animal units.
A permit issued by Steele County or the MPCA to construct or expand and animal feedlot or manure storage area that is not a pollution hazard to a capacity of 300 to 999 animal units.
A feedlot that is annually registered with Steele County, and has had livestock within the previous five (5) years or a feedlot that is annually registered, has maintained structures capable of housing livestock, and has been granted from Steele County an extension to the five year livestock requirement.
www.co.steele.mn.us /PLANZONE/feedlot/feedlot.html   (5964 words)

  
 OPEN FEEDLOT RUNOFF HOME STUDY LESSON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Runoff from feedlots is of concern because it transports soil and/or animal manure.
The amount and composition of runoff from a feedlot are affected by many factors, including precipitation, drainage area, feedlot size and slope, animal density, and whether the feedlot is paved or not.
The runoff from the feedlot is all channeled toward the settling basin, where it is contained and held long enough for the solids to settle.
www.abe.iastate.edu /homestudy/open.htm   (3097 words)

  
 Lamb Feedlot Nutrition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Feedlot lambs are more efficient when self-fed than when hand-fed twice daily.
Some feedlots have a series of five to nine different rations that are changed every two to three days to enable lambs to adapt to a high-concentrate finishing ration within 15 to 20 days.
T.L. Stanton, former Colorado State University Cooperative Extension feedlot specialist and professor, animal sciences.
www.ext.colostate.edu /pubs/livestk/01613.html   (1976 words)

  
 Premier Beef Feedlot Terms
This job is one of the highest-skill jobs in the feedlot and is done by an experienced and capable employee.
The person at the feedlot who is responsible for deciding the daily amount of feed the cattle are fed. This person is critical to the successful feeding of high concentrate diets.
The first week in the feedlot, the cattle may be fed a 45% roughage diet, the second week a 35% roughage diet, etc. until the cattle are on the final finisher.
agebb.missouri.edu /commag/beef/premierbeef/pbdocs/feedlotterms.htm   (2572 words)

  
 Feedlot Manure Management   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
While this is labor intensive for feedlots, it does indicate that pen cleaning as frequently as feasible for your specific operation is good management.
Feedlot operators should have an adequate land base to spread their manure.
The primary goals of runoff management are to divert water from flowing across the feedlot or storage area, and to prevent direct runoff from the feedlot or the stockpiled manure into waterways.
www.ext.colostate.edu /pubs/livestk/01220.html   (2537 words)

  
 Beef Manure Management   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Feedlot cattle manure was applied annually from 1973 to 1989 to irrigated plots at 0, 60, 120, and 180 Mg ha-1 (wet wt.
Beef cattle feedlot manure was composted in a windrow on an open concrete area in 1992, 1993, and 1994 to determine the amounts of nutrient, C, and mass loss during composting.
The feedlots that were cleaned had significantly fewer flie s than the uncleaned feedlots, with 50.9% fewer stable flies during the 1st yr and 36.2% fewer flies in the 2nd yr.
www.nal.usda.gov /wqic/Bibliographies/beef.html   (5619 words)

  
 The Food Revolution
Feedlot beef as we know it today would be impossible if it weren't for the routine and continual feeding of antibiotics to these animals.
When cattle are taken off grass, though, and shipped to a feedlot to be fattened on grain, they immediately begin losing the omega-3s they have stored in their tissues.
If they are taken to a conventional slaughterhouse, they are just as likely as a feedlot animal to be skinned while alive and fully conscious, and just as apt to be butchered and have their feet cut off while they are still breathing - distressing realities that tragically occur every hour in meat-packing plants nationwide.
www.foodrevolution.org /grassfedbeef.htm   (3003 words)

  
 feedlot
Feedlot operators are required to spend the limit amount to make partial upgrades even if cost-share money is not available.
Feedlot operators need to know that if funds are available from the County or state, they are required to make the upgrade.
The legislation also allows a feedlot owner to obtain an air quality easement from the owner of land adjoing his or her farm or parcel.
1rl.com /feedlot.htm   (798 words)

  
 Grassfarming and Animal Welfare - Eat Wild   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
She reports that "The level of dust on feedlots can be high, which springs the cattle's immune system into action and keeps it running on a constant basis." She has found that many of the respiratory deaths in feedlot cattle can be attributed to dust pneumonia.
Feedlot cattle need some roughage in their diet in addition to the grain concentrate or they will become sick and gain weight more slowly.
In an incident reported in a veterinary journal, cattle being fattened in a feedlot were fed a diet deficient in vitamin A. (The vitamin had been added to the rations, but had been destroyed by heat and humidity.) Deprived of this key vitamin, the cattle suffered blindness and convulsions.
www.eatwild.com /animals.html   (4500 words)

  
 Tabbita Feedlot Cattle Deaths - 15/08/2000 - URG MOT
It recommends the review of feedlot management practices in relation to water spray, wind generation and other issues; the identification of further research needs in weather station technology; and the need to develop a definitive reporting process to industry and the authorities for significant mortality events.
Feedlots create a buffer and are a source of valuable income for producers all over New South Wales, not merely for feedlots.
Feedlots value add and produce premium quality meat that is sought after by most countries in the world.
www.parliament.nsw.gov.au /prod/parlment/hansart.nsf/V3Key/LA20000815019   (2970 words)

  
 Missoulian - Court decision puts feedlot pollution in question
Helena District Court Thomas Honzel ruled Oct. 3 that the water pollution permit for the Cattle Development Center - a large feedlot near Custer - was based on a faulty study of feedlot pollution.
Feedlots are grassless pens where numerous cattle are fed a special diet to get them to gain weight before they are sent to a slaughter house.
Any would-be feedlot operator who agreed to follow those rules could apply for a permit, pay between $300 and $450 and automatically get the pollution permit feedlots need before they can legally open.
www.missoulian.com /articles/2003/10/11/news/mtregional/news08.txt   (569 words)

  
 Feedlot obtaining permits: Clark County cattle farm had operated without state permit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The department issued draft permits this month to Ohio Feedlot, which houses 9,800 beef cattle at a feedlot near South Charleston in Clark County.
The Dayton Daily News first reported that Ohio Feedlot was operating without permits in December as part of a series that examined shortcomings in the regulation of Ohio's livestock and poultry industries.
The feedlot's barns are bedded with wood chips so cattle have a dry surface on which to rest.
www.greenlink.org /public/hotissues/farm12.html   (620 words)

  
 Feedlot computer network installation for managing feedlot operations - Patent 5867820   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
A computer network and method for feeding animals in a feedlot, in which discretion and direct control over the various suboperations of the feed ration assignment and delivery process are distributed among the individual operators in the system, while the feedlot manager is capable of indirectly monitoring the performance of the various suboperations.
Generally, feeding cattle in a feedlot involves checking daily each pen to determine the ration quantity to be fed to the cattle therein at each particular feeding cycle during that day, the condition of the cattle, and the condition of the pen.
In feedlot computer network 16, the data files created and used by the feedmill computer system, the feed delivery vehicle computer systems, the feedlot veterinary computer system, the feedlot nutrition computer system and the financial computer system will be substantially the same as those data files created and used in feedlot computer network 16.
www.freepatentsonline.com /5867820.html   (14814 words)

  
 Recycling Feedlot Runoff
But livestock producers have various ways of protecting the environment from cattle waste, and one method is to collect all the runoff from feedlots in special temporary storage ponds.
The feedlot at MARC is situated on top of a foothill.
Rainfall runoff from a series of pens within this feedlot is directed to a shallow basin that runs the length of the pens.
www.ars.usda.gov /is/AR/archive/apr03/feed0403.htm   (480 words)

  
 FeedLot Software is used to compare the economics of alternative production and marketing strategies.
FeedLot Software is used to compare the economics of alternative production and marketing strategies.
Feedlot is a microcomputer program (Windows PC based) designed to help producers compare the economics of alternative production and marketing strategies.
This could include sending stocker-feeder cattle (600 to 800 lbs) to the feedlot or sending weaned calves (500 to 600 lbs) directly to the feedlot.
www.ag.unr.edu /cabnr/Goodies/FeedLot.htm   (130 words)

  
 2001 Animal Science Research Report - Feedlot Performance of Steers for Different Winter Grazing Programs
Inc., Cary, NC) with least squares means calculated.  Source of variation included in the model was previous winter grazing treatment.  We considered feedlot pen the experimental unit for this analysis.
When the intake differential between mean feed intake and predicted intake was calculated, LGW and NR steers had differentials 3.08 and 3.18 times larger than HGW steers.
Gain efficiency was similar between LGW and NR steers and greater (P<.05) than HGW steers during the first 50 d of the feedlot phase.  However, gain efficiency of all treatments was similar after 50 d, whereas when expressed across the entire feeding period, gain efficiency did not differ (P>.05) among treatment groups. 
www.ansi.okstate.edu /research/2001rr/25/25.htm   (248 words)

  
 Rural Cooperatives: Bringing it home: Dakota Prairie Beef Co-op adding value to home-grown cattle, grains - Dakota ...
Surrounded by open prairie, the feedlot facility is owned by Dakota Prairie Beef, a cooperative of 145 members, most of them farmers and ranchers, each of them owners of cattle being custom fed in their cooperatively owned lot.
The purpose in forming a cooperative to build a custom-finishing lot was to maximize the economies of scale that a larger feedlot affords." This provides cheaper gain than a producer might obtain by feeding small numbers of cattle at his or her home feedlot.
The goal of the meetings was to raise enough equity for the group to build a new feeding facility on purchased land near the small town of Gascoyne in southwestern North Dakota.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0KFU/is_6_69/ai_97177552   (1493 words)

  
 Wainui Feedlot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Wainui Feedlot is an intensive cattle feedlot situated between Dalby and Oakey on Queensland’s Darling Downs.
Consequently manure and its disposal was a large concern on the cattle feedlot.
Dust suppression is important in cattle feedlots because of the effect it has on the well being of the cattle.
www.geosp.uq.edu.au /emc/CP/res/ywainui_feedlot.htm   (1361 words)

  
 Cattleman's Guide to Feedlot Lingo
Calves which are taken directly off the cow and weaned at the feedlot, requiring additional labor and a greater degree of health management by the feedlot.
A veterinarian hired by the feedlot to consult on animal health related issues such as vaccines, treatments, etc. Usually paid on a retainer plus a per head fee.
A steroidal feed additive that is used to suppress estrus or cyclic activity in feedlot heifers.
www.ext.nodak.edu /extpubs/ansci/beef/as1161w.htm   (2212 words)

  
 Mississippi Farm to Feedlot Contest
Over the last ten years, cattle producers have had the opportunity to evaluate feedlot performance and carcass characteristics of their cattle through the Mississippi Farm to Feedlot program.
Contest steers are part of the 2003-2004 Farm to Feedlot consignment and are of varying types and breeds.
Feedlot average daily gain and health status data will be collected.
msucares.com /livestock/beef/ftf/contest.html   (454 words)

  
 Mille Lacs County Board changes feedlot ordinance
Johnson also said the board should define what a feedlot is and deal with it in a timely manner.
One feedlot owner suggested home buyers sign something that states the homeowner is aware there’s a feedlot nearby to avoid potential litigation.
There are just over 100 feedlots registered in the county but Huddleston said there are more feedlots in the county that are not registered.
www.ecm-inc.com /news/princeton/2004/July/1feedlot.html   (907 words)

  
 Feedlot Management
This publication identifies a set of problems often seen at feedlots, and discusses a variety of options that producers should consider when finding an effective and economical solution for their operation.
Iowa cattle feeders are making changes to their feedlots to improve cattle performance and stewardship, and meet environmental compliance.
While each feedlot and farm site is unique, producers can often learn from the experience of other producers and professionals.
www.iowabeefcenter.org /content/ltmgmt.htm   (1013 words)

  
 Iowa Beef Center - Feedlot Monitoring Software
Cattle feeders also need to know their production costs to determine what price can be paid for feeder cattle, and to take advantage of forward pricing opportunities.
The Feedlot Monitoring Program is available to Iowa residents for $400.00, and to out-of-state residents for $450.00.
Extension programs are available to all without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, or disability.
www.iowabeefcenter.org /content/feedlotmonitoringsoftware.htm   (573 words)

  
 KSUCVM Development Certificate Program in Feedlot Production Management   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
During the fourth year of the DVM curriculum, certificate students have an opportunity to complete an externship with a practicing feedlot consultant in addition to feedlot electives at Kansas State University and Great Plains Veterinary Educational Center (GPVEC).
There is a need for health professionals to have a knowledge base in management practices relating to nutrition, animal health, environmental and regulatory issues, and data management associated with the operation of cattle confinement feeding facilities.
The courses selected for the program are consistent with program objectives and are intended to enhance a student's educational and career background to the interdisciplinary nature of feedlot management by demonstrating the interrelationship of business administration, veterinary medicine, and livestock nutrition in the feeding industry.
www.vet.ksu.edu /depts/development/feedlot.htm   (554 words)

  
 Feedlot/ManureStoragePermits
The ordinance also limits the expansion of existing feedlots that are within a defined distance from existing residential dwellings.
The distances (setback areas) are determined by the size (# of animals) of the existing or proposed feedlots.
The second purpose of the feedlot ordinance is to provide protection to the environment, human and animal health.
www.tremplocounty.com /landmanagement/LandCons/FeedlotsManureStoragePermits.htm   (343 words)

  
 Feedlot Internship Course Outline
In general, the intership is designed to begin following the spring semester when students graduate with their undergraduate degree, and end just before Christmas so students are able to take a job beginning in January.
The second portion of the internship occurs when students go to their host feedlots to experience first hand how professionals utilize the principles students learned in the presession.
Internship (July 15 to November 25) - students are at their host feedlots during this time.
feedlot.unl.edu /intern/outline.htm   (222 words)

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