1 We raise calves for sale to feedlots, which fatten them up to market weight.

2 This is a huge feedlot outside Havana.

3 Grass-fed beef Feedlot waste piles up and ruins groundwater.

4 They had met briefly at the cattle feedlot near Fresno.

5 But even a feedlot cow is a much less efficient meat producer than an industrial pig or chicken.

6 Charolais have demonstrated growth ability, efficient feedlot gains and in carcass cut-out values.

7 Under natural conditions, the incubation period in feedlot cattle is uncertain in length.

8 The herd is kept in a large feedlot where there is an automatic feeder that fills itself from a silo.

9 Feedlot and other industrial farming systems that provide the majority of supermarket meat rely on heavy antibiotic use to speed the animals' growth and prevent disease in their filthy conditions.

10 They grow more slowly than feedlot animals and, as a result, emit more methane over their lifetime.

11 They hauled feedlot manure from the ranches to fertilize their fields.

12 Its broad, international coverage includes feedlot systems, transport, subsistence farming systems and the contribution of cattle production systems to land, air and water pollution.

13 Through comparing effects between grazing systems and a feedlot system on the degenerated vegetation, the roles of rotational grazing system playing in vegetation recovery were investigated.

14 Yearlings spend an average of five months in a feedlot before being shipped to the packing house.

15 Direct-fed microbials(DFM) have been shown to increase daily gain and feed efficiency in feedlot cattle, enhance milk production in dairy cows, and improve health and performance of young calves.

16 Our Stone Age ancestors certainly did not live in a feedlot.

17 Some people told us that large scale, collective agriculture in Cuba, as represented by the defunct feedlot, simply doesn't work well.

18 A beef cow in a US pasture, for example, emits 50 kilograms of methane per year, compared with just 26 kilograms in a feedlot, according to Livestock's Long Shadow.

19 A superb source of protein and vitamin B12, it's also missing the antibiotics, steroids and hormones found in the meat that comes from feedlot farms.