150000 head feed lot....is it a factory farm ?

Bald Rick

Moderator
Moderator
Location
Anglesey
Pfft. Chicago stockyard covered 375 acres back in the 1950s ...

1609673716154.jpeg


Go big or go home
 

Highland Mule

Member
Livestock Farmer
My uncle used to work for Simplot on there breeding improvement program. It was a good 10 years ago at that time they ran 5000 Angus suck cows on hill ground classified as high mountain desert in Idaho. The best were bulled to Angus as replacements and all the rest went to Charolais. They we're running about 1 cow per 10ha with virtually zero intervention until the calves were rounded up in the autumn and brought into the feedlot. All work was done in horseback.

I always wanted to go out there with him but never made it.
 

Henarar

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Somerset
No , the UK will just stop keeping nasty cattle . that will show em how its done .....then we can save the world.... and import it all from over there cos it don't count if we import it cos people can't see it , aren't we goodie to shoes 🙄
even if getting rid of cattle did make a difference which it doesn't us getting rid of them in this country wouldn't make a difference
its silly for so much breath to be wasted over it
 

Exfarmer

Member
Location
Bury St Edmunds
or possibly lairage for an abattoir?
No that was the Chicago Saleyard , I think set up some where around 1870. Then it was used to accomodate large herds driven on foot sometimes over a thousand miles from Texas. Most of these animals were sold on to fatteners and then brought back and sold fat to butchers . It incorporated large lairage facilities
 

Will you help clear snow?

  • yes

    Votes: 68 31.6%
  • no

    Votes: 147 68.4%

The London Palladium event “BPR Seminar”

  • 12,666
  • 185
This is our next step following the London rally 🚜

BPR is not just a farming issue, it affects ALL business, it removes incentive to invest for growth

Join us @LondonPalladium on the 16th for beginning of UK business fight back👍

Back
Top