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4 tips for maintaining summer feedlots
2016-05-13 20:05:16| Beef
Mud can reduce feed efficiency in feedlots by 13%. Here are four tips for maintaining summer lots when backgrounding or finishing cattle. Content Classification: Curated BEEF Daily read more
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Fewer, smaller feedlots responsible for more cattle
2016-02-20 04:42:00| Beef
Compared to a year earlier, total capacity of feedlots with 1,000 head or more was unchanged Jan. 1 of this year at 16.9 million head. In fact, it was at about that same level the previous two years, too. Thats according to data from the National Agricultural Statistics Service, released with Fridays Cattle on Feed report. Feedlots with capacities of less than 1,999 head are feeding more cattle: 6.5% more cattle inventory than two years earlier and 5.8% more than the previous year. read more
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Ranches, feedlots earn Red Angus Grid Master award
2015-10-17 16:30:53| Beef
Only the best of the best are recognized—the best genetics, the best management and ultimately, the best the beef business can offer its consumers in high quality beef and a consistently sati read more
Meat Market Update | Boost in sales is positive for feedlots
2015-08-07 03:51:00| Beef
Ed Czerwien, USDA Market News reporter in Amarillo, TX, provides us with the latest outlook on boxed beef prices and the weekly cattle trade. Ed Czerwien, USDA Market News Reporter read more
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Southern Minnesota farmer asks: Who's minding the feedlots?
2015-03-22 00:20:23| Livestock - Topix.net
Within three months, county commissioners approved the feedlot under a revised application, diluted the rules for obtaining an initial permit and petitioned to remove the judge from the case. And so it goes in this southern Minnesota county, where five of seven Planning Commission members are themselves feedlot operators or sons of operators.
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