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 ...

You think you deal with a lot of bull crap? Allan Sents needs a front-end loader and a dump truck to deal with all the cattle manure he’s up against. Literally. Sents and his wife Deanna co-own ...

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 ...

November 21, 2017 — “Grass-fed” beef is increasingly marketed as more environmentally friendly and ethical than beef produced from feedlots. But is it really? Whether or not we agree that beef can be ...

BLOOMING PRAIRIE — On a tour of a hog feedlot, the first thing evident is how neat, clean and efficient the facility is. "Keeping yourself clean is the name of the game," said 24-year-old barn owner ...

You think you deal with a lot of bull crap? Allan Sents needs a front-end loader and a dump truck to deal with all the cattle manure he's up against. Literally. Sents and his wife Deanna co-own ...

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 ...

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, ...

Minnesota’s feedlot rule revisions could reshape manure management, technical standards and permit requirements for farms of ...

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 ...