But slumping futures, mostly due to fund liquidation, encouraged feedlots to resist paying up for animals and scared feedlots into selling them for less money, he said.
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In November, Texas had 2.68 million head of cattle bulking up on large-scale feedlots -- more than any other state in the US. Feedlots reduce emissions per kilogram of meat, explains Steinfeld.
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But cows didn't evolve to sit in feedlots getting fat.
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Many industrial feedlots see routine use of antibiotics as essential.
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Feedlots in Nebraska have been struggling with muddy conditions for months.
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Cattle feedlots are located throughout Nebraska - the second ranked cattle producing state.
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For that matter, why not post video cameras at slaughterhouses and feedlots?
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Chief among the culprits: runoff from farms, feedlots and municipal sewer systems.
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"Cattle numbers in feedlots are at all-time highs," the report said.
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Within just a few miles of Yuma, you can see two major feedlots.
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Nebraska has the second-largest number of U.S. cattle in feedlots after Texas.
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Also, cattle feedlots were under pressure but have recovered in the past year.
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Analysts estimated that the amount of cattle in U.S. feedlots as of Feb.
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After the close, the USDA said the number of cattle at feedlots on Oct.
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Additionally, heavy rains in the southern U.S. Plains cattle region left many feedlots muddy.
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Analysts said the bulge of animals at feedlots is contributing to lower cattle returns.
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Biogas energy from feedlots and dairies has plenty of room for growth as well.
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The storm followed weeks of poor conditions in Nebraska feedlots that have reduced cattle weights.
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Western's closure may result in ranchers selling more young cattle to U.S. feedlots, he said.
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Lighter cattle makes them less available to packers, giving feedlots more leverage in negotiating prices.
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Traditionally, making "protein" requires massive feedlots, slaughterhouses and medicines and chemicals to treat and process animals.
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It also sold the last of its four U.S. cattle feedlots and a Canadian egg processor.
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But feedlots passed on packer bids of $112 per cwt in different Midwest locations, traders said.
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On Friday, the USDA will issue an update on the number of cattle in U.S. feedlots.
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Cattle placements in feedlots during March were 2.014 million head, up 5 percent from a year earlier.
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The entire agricultural process, from growing and picking feed to transporting it to feedlots, emits greenhouse gases.
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Feedlots, which fatten up cattle ahead of slaughter, have suffered through 15 straight months of red ink.
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The agency said 1.71 million head were placed in feedlots in July, down 2% from a year earlier.
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"We've seen feeder demand come off just because of how bad the conditions are," VanDyke said of feedlots.
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The animals are available for adoption, but most go to long-term storage on feedlots and in pastures.
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Traders were separately keeping an eye on wintry weather that could hit feedlots in the central United States.
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"The feedlots are full and we have big supplies ahead of us," said Don Roose, president of U.S. Commodities.
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Cattle feedlots in parts of the Plains have already been struggling with poor weather and muddy conditions for weeks.
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The floods posed more significant problems for the cattle sector, including feedlots, where muddy conditions were depressing cattle weights.
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It handles nearly 10 percent of cattle placed annually on U.S. feedlots, according to the Livestock Marketing Information Center.
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CHICAGO, July 8 (Reuters) - Cargill Inc announced the sale of two of its Texas beef cattle feedlots to Amarillo, Texas-based Friona Industries, LP pending final agreements and regulatory reviews, the company said in a statement on Friday, Under the deal, Friona Industries will acquire Cargill's cattle feedlots at Bovina and Dalhart, Texas.
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Despite Western's plan to stop fattening cattle, Alberta is not likely to lose more feedlots, the province's agriculture minister said.
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The USDA also said 1.756 million head were placed in feedlots in June, compared to analysts' estimates for 1.766 million.
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Analysts polled by Reuters, on average, believe 4.2 percent more cattle entered U.S. feedlots last month than a year earlier.
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Antibiotics are added to animals' feed, accelerating their growth and preventing them from getting sick in crowded barns and feedlots.
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Increasing productivity doesn't necessarily mean intensive feedlots, he adds; quality of pasture and improving veterinary care can both play a part.
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Analysts estimate that placements of cattle in feedlots in May fell 4.2% from a year earlier, according to a Reuters poll.
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The USDA also said there were 11.7 million head of cattle in feedlots on June 1, in line with analysts' expectations.
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Raised solely for meat in remote, muddy feedlots in Alberta, it's not just the final destination of these horses that troubles vets.
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Strengthening cash beef prices and government data showing smaller-than-expected cattle supplies at feedlots had supported the market earlier this week.
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Over the coming months, a wildfire of panic swept across our struggling alfalfa fields, through our barren feedlots and into our homes.
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A small number of cattle have traded at Kansas feedlots from $0.51.200 to $124 per cwt, for delivery in mid-May, traders said.
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Feedlots were offering to sell some 211.9,000 more cattle than a week ago, said Rich Nelson, chief strategist for Illinois-based broker Allendale.
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But Price calls the disease-prevention clause a "massive loophole" that will allow for the continued use of antibiotics on farms and feedlots.
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As the live cattle futures market is running at a significant discount to the cash market, feedlots are shedding their excess supplies, traders said.
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The business, which includes a 90 percent interest in two Indonesian feedlots, had A$881 million in assets, according to a March 2017 valuation.
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Many of these bacteria are found on and around beef-producing cows, 30 million of which are packed into US feedlots, per USDA estimates.
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Additional pressure stemmed from fears that an explosion at a Cargill beef plant at Dodge City, Kansas, might back up cattle supplies at feedlots.
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"We hit the peak after packers and feedlots got carried away last week with sharply higher prices," said Sterling Marketing Inc President John Nalivka.
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Processors such as Tyson buy cattle from feedlots in broad geographic areas and own multiple plants that slaughter beef for sale by retailers and restaurants.
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A drop-off in the supply of Canadian cattle would amplify concerns for feedlots and packers in Canada, where the country's herd has declined steadily.
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"The cattle that are coming in across the border are going straight to feedlots as opposed to onto pasture or on some forage," said McCullock.
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If we eat no meat or just a lot less, what will happen to giant feedlots that publicly traded entities own far from urban centers?
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The agency is expected to report that 1.828 million cattle were placed in feedlots during December, up 123% from the previous year, the poll shows.
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The agency is expected to report that 1.828 million cattle were placed in feedlots during December, up 123% from the previous year, the poll shows.
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However, feedlots are now wrestling with whether they may be forced to accept lower bids of $270, given the weakness in the cash market, say traders.
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Cargill's recent push has centered around its proteins business, with expansions in feed production and aquaculture and divestitures of its U.S. pork business and cattle feedlots.
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Ackerman predicts the business will continue growing to 300 lasers, and that their use will spread outside farming to include oil refineries, warehouses, and dairy feedlots.
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Meanwhile, U.S. cattle futures were somewhat pressured from a recent USDA report showing that U.S. cattle producers placed more animals than expected into feedlots last month.
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"There are 20,000 open jobs in Kansas, and there are feedlots in South Kansas that wouldn't exist" without guest workers, said Brent Robertson, Marshall's campaign manager.
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Agricultural groups have pressed U.S. states to enact ag-gag laws to stop activists and journalists from secretly probing animal abuse at farms, dairies, feedlots and slaughterhouses.
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Alberta-based Western Feedlots said on Wednesday that it will shut feeding operations early in 2017, citing poor market conditions and unfavorable economic factors in the province.
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Feedlots in Kansas and Texas are asking $124 to $125 per cwt for cash cattle that last week in the U.S. Plains traded from $119 to $120.
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That should translate into lower prices for hamburgers and steaks for consumers, as it could help keep feedlots in operation and avoid costly bottlenecks in beef production.
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But in the past decade the idyllic image of the gaucho cowboy on the Pampas has made way for massive investment in intensive cattle feedlots, says Steinfeld.
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A black collar means a 100% Ibérico pig, reared free-range and fattened on bellotas; white denotes a pig reared in feedlots and sired by a non-Ibérico.
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Packer bids at southern Plains feedlots were around $112 to $0.1153.950 per cwt, although cattle owners appeared unwilling to sell for less than $115 or $116, Wiegand said.
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The way feedlots and other producers manage manure also ensures that cattle continue to produce methane long after they have gone to the great steakhouse in the sky.
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He's a man of the West, of feedlots and ramshackle cabins, of a silence punctuated only by the sound of crickets, but a man of words as well.
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The USDA said in a monthly report on Friday afternoon that 1.88 million head of cattle were placed in feedlots in August, 45.0893% less than a year earlier.
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Another factor behind February's placement buildup was that packers paid feedlots enough for their cattle to turn a profit, which allowed them to buy calves to fatten, analysts said.
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Analysts polled by Reuters predicted a 0.1 percent rise in cattle placed on feed during September and about 6.4 percent more cattle in U.S. feedlots as of Oct. 1.
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The two other sources said the demand for foreign corn is driven by farmers hoarding the grain and logistical obstacles between midwest growing regions and feedlots in Santa Catarina.
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In the cattle market, futures could come under pressure on Monday after the USDA reported that more cattle were placed in feedlots in May than analysts expected, traders said.
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Poky Feeders, which raises about 125,000 cattle on three feedlots in Kansas, changed its grain rations to be half wheat from all corn in July, said Chief Executive Joe Morgan.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Cheaper feed and more cattle should help stem losses for U.S. feedlots this year, livestock analysts say, keeping beef supplies flowing just as demand starts to pick up.
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In February, feedlots on average reduced losses to $218 per head - a sharp improvement from the $500 losses in December, as estimated by Colorado-based Livestock Marketing Information Center (LMIC).
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Craig Uden, who co-owns a feedlot in Nebraska, has been fattening cattle for nearly 35 years and considers this one of the roughest periods for feedlots he has seen.
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After the close of trading, the USDA said in a monthly report that 1.88 million head of cattle were placed in feedlots in August, 9% less than a year earlier.
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In beef production, the privately held companies that fatten up cattle on feedlots, are seeing record profits for 2017, according to Jim Robb, an analyst at the Livestock Marketing Information Center.
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The halt in slaughtering pushed Chicago Mercantile Exchange cattle futures down by their daily, exchange-imposed 3-cent limit as traders expect cattle supplies may start to back up in feedlots.
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Feedlots in the southern Plains are asking packers to keep paying $100 per cwt for cattle, more than the companies' bids for $97 and $98 per cwt this week, Hoops said.
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Veterinarians working for certain feedlots — industrial-style farms where chickens, pigs and cattle are fattened — seem more than happy to continue writing prescriptions for antibiotics that end up in livestock feed.
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CHICAGO, Dec 270.675 (Reuters) - U.S. cattle producers placed more animals than expected into feedlots last month, U.S. Department of Agriculture data showed on Friday, raising expectations for big supplies next summer.
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The USDA, in a monthly report, said 11.485 million head of cattle were in feedlots on July 0.30.250, the highest inventory for that date since the agency began tracking it in 1996.
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At present, the cost of calves for feedlots is falling as farmers build up the U.S. herd, which hit a 63-year low in 2014 because of a drought that shriveled crops.
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The documentary Dominion, directed by Chris Delforce, used drones and undercover footage to film feedlots and saleyards to show how animals are treated in the production of meat, dairy, eggs and leather.
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Futures tumbled despite a sharp jump in corn prices, which would typically be supportive to live cattle because higher feed costs may prompt feedlots to market cattle sooner and at lighter weights.
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The number of cattle on feed is expected to rise 1.7 percent from a year ago, while the number of cattle placed in feedlots will rise 3.4 percent, according to a Reuters poll.
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Reporter Isobel Yeung travels to the feedlots, farms, and slaughterhouses where our meat is made to understand how cutting corners to bring down market prices and increase demand can lead to environmental catastrophes.
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The declines signal a buildup of beef supplies before the U.S. Department of Agriculture, in a monthly report on Friday, is expected to report large numbers of cattle in American feedlots, traders said.
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Most of the beef on Crowd Cow and similar websites is grass-fed, which research has shown has higher levels of healthful omega-3 fatty acids than meat from animals raised on feedlots.
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Some feedlots have been forced to close, as reflected in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's revised figures that showed 2015 feedlot totals at 1173,189, down from 28,127 in 2014 and 29,090 the year before.
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But the remote, southwestern corner of Kansas remained largely unpopulated until the 1960s, when advances in irrigation technology suddenly made it possible for ranchers to grow enough corn to sustain industrial-scale cattle feedlots.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Ranchers drove 7.3 percent more cattle into U.S. feedlots in February than a year ago, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported on Friday, the most for the month in 16 years.
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Katelyn McCullock, senior economist with the Livestock Marketing Information Center, said the southern Plains continued to see some drought impacts based on lighter weight animals going into feedlots - including feeder cattle arriving from Mexico.
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While all cattle graze on grass for much of their lives, at least ninety-five per cent of American beef cattle spend their last four to six months being fattened on grain at feedlots.
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"The fact that we put more of them (cattle) into feedlots a little bit earlier means that the actual number of cattle out running around the country is a little bit tighter," said Peel.
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"Through the changeover in the food industry came profit motives and different models, from having the meat industry centered at big cities and the railroads to feedlots accessible by the federal highway system," she says.
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"Placements were down the previous month and there were some dryness issues popping up in parts of the southern Plains that moved some cattle into the feedlots," said Alan Brugler, president of Brugler Marketing & Management.
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CPC, however, is still the largest private cattle company in Australia, with 3.2 million hectares (7.91 million acres) of land, a carrying capacity of close to 300,000 head of cattle and two feedlots in Indonesia.
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CPC, however, is still the largest private cattle company in Australia, with 3.2 million hectares (7.91 million acres) of land, a carrying capacity of close to 300,000 head of cattle and two feedlots in Indonesia.
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As a result, cow-calf producers such as Tucker — those operators breeding cattle with plans to sell the offspring to feedlots — are getting squeezed with lower prices than they were getting just a few years ago.
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An early surge of Canadian calves sold to feedlots this fall, as ranchers limit exposure to soaring feed costs, may leave supplies ample for now, said Brian Perillat, senior analyst at Canfax, a market analysis firm.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Friday reported October placements of cattle in U.S. feedlots at 2.477 million head, up 10% from a year ago but just below the average trade estimate for an 11.4% increase.
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CHICAGO, Nov 10 (Reuters) - U.S. live cattle futures fell for a fifth straight session on Friday on technical selling and pressure from a weak cash cattle market following lower trade at U.S. Plains feedlots this week, traders said.
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Montana and Wyoming feedlots face similar high feed costs due to dry weather as Canada, so more cattle may end up further south in Texas, Kansas and Nebraska, said John Ginzel, analyst at The Linn Group in Chicago.
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It creates jobs in feedlots and slaughterhouses in the United States, where the animals are fattened, and produces less costly beef for consumers in the United States and in the global markets to which the beef is exported.
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It is popular, however, among growing demographic groups like Latinos and Muslims, and some consumers who eat lamb because they believe the animals are raised more humanely, far from feedlots and the practices of large-scale meat production.
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Privately held Cargill's recent push, including Tuesday's deal for Iowa-based Diamond V, has centered on its animal nutrition and protein unit, with expansions in feed production and aquaculture and divestitures of its U.S. pork business and cattle feedlots.
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Mounds of Their Own Dung The thing you remember most about feedlots is the smell—the smell, way before seeing the actual cattle, usually Holstein crosses huddled in tight, listless bands on top of mounds of their own dung.
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WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Sept 22 (Reuters) - The closure of one of Canada's biggest cattle feedlots is likely to depress prices of young cattle and the grains used to fatten them, and may increase sales to the United States, industry officials say.
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But when USDA did its obligatory "investigation," instead of a surprise visit to the facility, USDA gave them a heads up by making an appointment, allowing the CAFO to move cows from feedlots to pasture on the day of inspection.
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The recent push by privately held Cargill, including Tuesday's deal for Iowa-based Diamond V, has centered on its animal nutrition and protein unit, with expansions in feed production and aquaculture and divestitures of its U.S. pork business and cattle feedlots.
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In the Plains, hard red winter wheat prices <0#KW:> hit the highest in six weeks on worries that crops sustained freeze damage, while cattle prices <0#LC:> hit seven-week peaks on concerns over slowed beef cattle production at feedlots.
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BRASILIA, Jan 17 (Reuters) - JBS SA, the world's largest meatpacker, has agreed to sell its Five Rivers cattle feedlots in the United States to affiliates of Pinnacle Asset Management LP for about $200 million, the company said in a securities filing on Wednesday.
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SAO PAULO, Dec 9 (Reuters) - The number cows slaughtered in Brazil after spending 90 days in feedlots is estimated to have grown by 2% to about 5.3 million head in 2019, a survey of Brazil's cattle market by Dutch nutrition company DSM showed on Monday.
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But if you look at a more industrial system, we're talking about a larger blue water footprint; those cattle start on grass as well, but eventually they are switched over to feedlots where they're fed grains which are much more intensive in their needs for irrigation.
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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, for example, the advocacy group better known by its acronym, PETA, has endorsed the harvest of animals killed on the road as a more ethical and humane way to get meat than through commercial agriculture practices that use feedlots and slaughterhouses.
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Both this consolidation and the overall decline in farm income will spill over into farm towns, leading to a further decline in off-farm business activity and employment, especially among businesses directly serving farmers as well as farm input suppliers and downstream processors of farm and ranch production, such as feedlots and pork producers.
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Swinging open the barn doors, members of the agriculture community, from small family operators to media savvy "ag-vocates," are publicly discussing, debating, and sharing videos of cute cows in green pastures (I have yet to see any from the massive feedlots or hog or chicken sheds) in hopes of proving that things aren't quite as scary as undercover footage and growing anti-animal Ag discourse would have us all believe.
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