feedlots
Livestock fattening pens
Feedlots are enclosed areas where livestock—especially cattle—are fattened on concentrated feed before slaughter.
Animals stand in close quarters, eating grain rather than grazing pasture.
The term often carries negative connotations of industrial agriculture: Factory farms and feedlots have replaced the family ranch.
Also called feedyards.
Domesticated bovines kept commercially
- steersControls direction of travel
- heifersImmature female cattle
- fatteningPromoting weight gain
- pensHandheld writing implements
bunks · troughs · finishing · weight gain · slaughter · beef production · stockyards · holding pens
Non-human health and treatment
- factory farmingIntensive livestock production system
- overcrowdingCapacity exceeded dangerously
- antibioticsBacteria-destroying medicines
- pollutionEnvironmental harm from waste
environmental impact · runoff · methane · ethics · regulation · activism · inhumane · industrial agriculture
Cereal grown on cobs
- silageFermented crop fodder
- grainCereal plant's harvest unit
- hayDried feed crop
- supplementsExtra nutritional intake
rations · byproducts · roughage · additives · growth hormones · mixing · nutrition · protein
cattle
Domesticated bovines kept commercially
pens · bunks · troughs · finishing · weight gain · slaughter · beef production · stockyards · holding pens · water tanks
animal welfare
Non-human health and treatment
- factory farmingIntensive livestock production system
- overcrowdingCapacity exceeded dangerously
- antibioticsBacteria-destroying medicines
pollution · environmental impact · runoff · methane · ethics · regulation · activism · inhumane · industrial agriculture · sustainability
corn
Cereal grown on cobs
supplements · rations · byproducts · roughage · additives · growth hormones · mixing · nutrition · protein · forage
- agriculturefarms, crops, farm, farmers, farming
- American Farmingfamily farms, corn, wheat, hay, farmsteads
- cattle ranchingcattle, cattle drive, cattle drives, cattle auctions, cattle branding
- livestockcow, cows, cattle, bull, bulls
- ranchingcattle, ranch, rancher, ranchers, ranching
- Beef Cattlebeef, beef cattle, cattle ranch, ranching, steer
feedlotspasture-raised
Reared on grassland
free-range · rangeland · wild-caught · hunting · backyard farming
feedlotsopen range
Unfenced public grazing land
wilderness · rangeland · grasslands · meadows · prairies