New Concepts in Feedlot Practice

Abstract

Veterinary practice in relation to beef cattle feedlot operations has entered a new and rapidly changing era during the past few years. Today it is not at all uncommon for a single feedlot to finish out 30 thousand or more cattle annually and feedlots of 60 thousand capacity are not out of the ordinary. We can expect that such operations will become even larger in the near future. Such mammoth operations may seem startling or even frightening to the veterinary practitioner whose thoughts and concepts are geared toward problems of individual animals and comparatively small herds.