Meatpacking plant closures and slowdowns due to the COVID-19 pandemic have market-ready cattle overstaying their welcome in feedlots and crowding out newcomers. Placements into feedlots in April were ...

U.S. feedlot inventory hits 11.5 million as the closure of Lubbock Feeders signals growing pressure from border disruptions ...

CHICAGO - The number of cattle placed in U.S. feedlots last month was higher than expected due to an increase in the number of cattle that had grazed on pastures over the past few months, a government ...

Although grass-fed is touted as the environmentally and ethically best choice for beef eaters, feedlots often outperform on both fronts. We are glad to share Ensia articles free of charge under the ...

The United States Cattle on Feed report indicated an increase in inventory, as reported Nov. 17 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service. The report comes from ...

Feedlot owners put a record number of cattle on feed last February as producers dealt with dry conditions and processors were running at a steady clip. The number of cattle placed into large feedlots ...

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Growing so large that they are now called factory farms, livestock feedlots are poorly regulated, pose health and ecological dangers and are responsible for deteriorating quality of life in America’s ...

HAPPY, Texas — Randy Shields looked out at a sea of cattle at the sprawling Wrangler Feedyard — 46,000 animals milling about in the dry Panhandle air as a feed truck swept by on its way to their pens.

Close up, a feedlot cow is a sight to behold: It’s a hulking, broad-shouldered eating machine with a three-foot-long tongue and a jaw that never seems to stop chewing. At just 20 months old, one of ...

Relentless rains this month have caused 17 manure pits at 15 large farms in southwestern Minnesota to overflow, releasing livestock waste into the environment. The overflows, all at open pit lagoons, ...

A Lake Park, Minn., farmer says Clay County needs a new ordinance to better regulate the number of animals that reside on property in the county. Amos Baer, owner of Baer Poultry Co., said the ...