What is a feedlot?
Explain this to me. A cattle feedlot is a place to which cattle are shipped [when they’re] anywhere really from 500 to 800 pounds, in which they go from a diet of predominantly forages — … grass that they eat on a ranch — to a highly concentrated high-energy ration, which accelerates their rate of growth and also increases their palatability, their tenderness. So you get a better product faster. … They’re very, very efficient areas in which the cattle are penned individually, fed a very scientifically derived ration in order to increase both efficiency and palatability. … What would be useful is if you could describe the life of an average cow or average cattle these days. I don’t think people understand the steps from farm to fork. … Frequently, cows are owned in smaller groups by individuals. … Frequently though, the ownership changes when that animal, the calf, is 400 or 500 pounds. And it might well be sold to a stocker operator who has perhaps large ranchland and grows
