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...At feedlots, additives can reduce the amount of methane produced inside cows’ digestive systems....
...“So I’ve been to a feedlot,” Mr Schwab said. “It’s interesting, but what drives our philosophy is trying to understand the key drivers of returns and quantify those and systematise those....
...The price of “feeder” cattle — younger animals delivered to feedlots for a final fattening — has also slumped....
...Tyson said its beef business was also impacted after feedlots fell behind on their marketing schedules, leaving the company with a low supply....
...During its latest quarter Cargill divested a Texas cattle feedlot near a slaughterhouse it idled in 2013....
...Live cattle futures plunged by the daily permissible price limit of 3 cents a pound on the idea that Cargill will purchase fewer animals after they’ve been fattened on corn at feedlots....
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...The number of cattle placed on US feedlots, vast pens where they feast on corn before shipment to meatpackers, fell 19 per cent on year in September, the USDA reports....
...Such feeder cattle are fattened at feedlots before being sold to meatpacking plants....
...More than 10.7m cows are now eating grain in US feedlots, 5 per cent more than last year. But August brought fewer new calves, to the surprise of analysts....
...“It may be the biggest rally in fed cattle prices from December till April in the last 30 years,” said James Herring, president of Friona Industries, a Texas feedlot operator that supplies Cargill, the US...
...Simon Schama is an FT contributing editor ‘Food, Inc’, a documentary featuring Michael Pollan, has just been released on DVD ………………………………………….....
...Live cattle costs have climbed by almost a fifth this year, with the number of animals on US feedlots approaching a 10-year low as the prolonged drought in the south-east and northern plains damaged grazing...
...The 36,000 cattle being fattened for slaughter at Highland Feeders' feedlots east of Edmonton, Alberta, produce about 70,000 tonnes of manure a year....
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