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  2. Ranchland gift of 43 acres to be used for new WT Research Feedlot

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    The gifted land, valued at $425,000, will serve as the location for a new WT Research Feedlot and Education Center. Ranchland gift of 43 acres to be used for new WT Research Feedlot Skip to main ...

  3. 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

  4. Intensive animal farming - Wikipedia

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    Beef cattle on a feedlot in the Texas Panhandle. Such confinement creates more work for the farmer but allows the animals to grow rapidly. Cattle are domesticated ungulates, a member of the family Bovidae, in the subfamily Bovinae, and descended from the aurochs (Bos primigenius). [55]

  5. 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.

  6. Texas wildfires destroy grain and cattle, agriculture ... - AOL

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    Texas is the nation's biggest cattle producer, and Miller said more than 85% of the state's herd is in the Panhandle. Most are in feedlots and dairies that are unscathed, though, he said.

  7. Texas Panhandle ranchers face losses and grim task of ... - AOL

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    SKELLYTOWN, Texas (AP) — First, the flames came storming across the vistas of the Texas Panhandle, burning through the grassy plains and scrub land of the region's cattle ranches.

  8. Meat-packing industry - Wikipedia

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    The William Davies Company facilities in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, circa 1920. This facility was then the third largest hog-packing plant in North America. The meat-packing industry (also spelled meatpacking industry or meat packing industry) handles the slaughtering, processing, packaging, and distribution of meat from animals such as cattle, pigs, sheep and other livestock.

  9. Agriculture in Texas - Wikipedia

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    Texas leads the nation in number of cattle, usually exceeding 16 million head. The sprawling 320,000 deeded acres (130,000 ha) La Escalera Ranch, located 20 miles (32 km) south of Fort Stockton, is one of the largest cattle ranches in the Southwestern United States. [citation needed] Texas leads nationally in production of sheep and goat ...

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