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  2. Feedlot - Wikipedia

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    Once the young calves reach a weight between 300 and 700 pounds (140 and 320 kg) they are rounded up and either sold directly to feedlots, or sent to cattle auctions for feedlots to bid on them. Once transferred to a feedlot, they are housed and looked after for the next six to eight months where they are fed a total mixed ration [12] to gain ...

  3. Harris Ranch - Wikipedia

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    Harris Ranch, or the Harris Cattle Ranch, feedlot is California's largest beef producer, producing 150 million pounds (68 kt) of beef per year in 2010. [1] It is located alongside Interstate 5 at its intersection with State Route 198 east of Coalinga , in the San Joaquin Valley of central California .

  4. Cattle feeding - Wikipedia

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    Feedlot and intensive finishing are intensive forms of animal production. Cattle are often "finished" here, spending the last months before their slaughter gaining weight. They are fed nutritionally dense feed, also known as "concentrate" or "filler corn", in stalls, pens and feedlots at high stocking densities in enclosure

  5. Porteus Farms: Robotic cattle-feeding system saves time and ...

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    The new system at Porteus Farms is part of a five-year study to gauge efficiency increases. It includes a new barn and robotic feeding system.

  6. Iowa cattle feedlot's manure pollution apparently went ...

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    A cattle feedlot too small to need a state-required manure management plan has apparently polluted Iowa streams for years, the Iowa DNR says

  7. Concentrated animal feeding operation - Wikipedia

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    Smithfield Foods hog CAFO, Unionville, Missouri, 2013. In animal husbandry, a concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO), as defined by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), is an intensive animal feeding operation (AFO) in which over 1,000 animal units are confined for over 45 days a year.

  8. Intensive animal farming - Wikipedia

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    As of 2009–2010 it is estimated that there are 1.3–1.4 billion head of cattle in the world. [56] [57] Diagram of feedlot system. This can be contrasted with more traditional grazing systems. The most common interactions with cattle involve daily feeding, cleaning and milking.

  9. Animal feeding operation - Wikipedia

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    1 to 299 cattle other than mature dairy cows or veal calves; 1 to 749 swine each weighing 55 pounds or more; 1 to 2,999 swine each weighing less than 55 pounds; 1 to 149 horses; 1 to 2,999 sheep or lambs; 1 to 16,499 turkeys; 1 to 8,999 laying hens, or broilers, if the AFO uses a liquid manure handling system;

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