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  • Cattle feedlot in Kansas, CAFO,
    Cattle Feedlot.jpg
  • Cattle feedlot in Kansas, CAFO,
    Cattle Feedlot.jpg
  • Harold "JR" Hoskinson at the "riding the range" at the Ingalls Feedlot.  Hoskinson grew up on a farm 15 miles from this feedlot and spend a number of years cowboying (amongst other things).  Now he is the night watchman at the Ingalls Feedlot, part of the Irsik-Doll chain  of cattle operations. The innovation of feedlots was to bring the cattle to the feed and thus reduce labor and stress on the cattle producing higher profit margins.  Here you can see the central feed bins with the "alleys" designed for effecient feeding by special feed trucks.  Hoskinson says he likes being on the range better but the pay and benefits are better in the feedlots, which came in handy two years ago when he lost his voice box to cancer.
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  • A feedlot cowboy "riding the range" at the Ingalls Feedlot, Ingalls, Kansas.  The innovation of feedlots was to bring the cattle to the feed and thus reduce labor and stress on the cattle producing higher profit margins.  Here you can see the central feed bins with the "alleys" designed for effecient feeding by special feed trucks.  This cowboy said he likes being on the range better but the pay and benefits are better in the feedlots.
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  • Cattle working contest for teams of "Feedlot Cowboys" and "Feedlot Cowgirls" from area feedlots at Beef Empire Days, Garden City, Kansas.  They have to "Doctor" three steers in shortest possible time. Beef Empire Days is the major celebration in Garden City, which owes its wealth to the beef industry which was made possible by the waters of the Ogallala Aquifer.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220131.jpg
  • Dust rises from a cattle feedlot in Kansas as cattle milling around kick up huge dust clouds.
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  • Foggy morning at the Ingalls Feedlot east of Garden City, Kansas.  Cattle being loaded into cattle trucks, cattle in feelots, feed trucks coming out of the feed tower hauling hot steam flashed corn.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220265...jpg
  • Cattle feedlots in Kansas bring the cattle closer to the grain that is grown using water from the Ogallala Aquifer. Such Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO) can hold over 100,000 amilmals and the ares of southwest Kansas will have several million cattle in feedlots at any one time.
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  • A center pivot irrigation system creeps across a field of corn in the Platte River valley of Nebraska. Corn is one of the biggest users of Ogallala (and High Plains) Aquifer water, most which either goes to produce ethanol or is used as lifestock feed in cattle feedlots.
    Ogallala_20220115_0010.jpg
  • A center pivot irrigation system creeps across a field of corn in the Platte River valley of Nebraska. Corn is one of the biggest users of Ogallala (and High Plains) Aquifer water, most which either goes to produce ethanol or is used as lifestock feed in cattle feedlots.
    Ogallala_20220114_0040.jpg
  • A center pivot irrigation system creeps across a field of corn in the Platte River valley of Nebraska. Corn is one of the biggest users of Ogallala (and High Plains) Aquifer water, most which either goes to produce ethanol or is used as lifestock feed in cattle feedlots.
    Ogallala_20220114_0042.jpg