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Answer for the clue "Cattle ranch area ", 7 letters:
feedlot

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A feedlot or feed yard is a type of animal feeding operation (AFO) which is used in intensive animal farming for finishing livestock, notably beef cattle , but also swine, horses, sheep, turkeys, chickens or ducks, prior to slaughter. Large beef feedlots ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context US English) Land on which cattle are fattened for market

Usage examples of feedlot.

These days Joe got a lot of his meat precut and packaged from the feedlot up in Ja Jara, Colorado.

It would have been a struggle under normal operations, but to throw in two large capital expenditures with the feedlot and the horse-breeding facilities and stock .

Standing in the feedlot with puddles of water soaking into the sponge-dry ground, Ty looked at the destruction the storm had left in its wake.

He yawned, stretched, and examined the half dozen cows in the feedlot beside the barn with a professional eye.

Made it to a feedlot operator who liked to go off to Vegas and try to beat the blackjack tables.

If there is I call the feedlot and they bring the calves over and I turn on my video camera and get a tape of the mama cows saying hello to their missing calves.

But everything for the Yale Family Trust, which includes illegal wiring in two apartment buildings in the city, a winery in the Napa Valley, and at a cattle feedlot near Fresno, has been done within the past three months.

Others staggered around the feedlot, tripping and fainting, their woolly faces twitching.

After hours or days squeezed into trucks, dehydrated and awake the whole trip, the cows are thrown in with other cows in the feedlot outside the slaughterhouse.

The stench of the place could only be compared to a cross between a feedlot and a garbage dump.

Farther on could be seen a bootmaker, a general store and feedlot, and a false-fronted three-story hotel called the GRAND CONTINENTAL, with most of its ground floor taken up by a bank.

The Ballenger brothers, Calhoun and Justin, had just added another facility to their growing feedlot enterprise, and they looked prosperous with their wives in gala attire beside them.

He observed the trio of riders herding a small band of cattle toward the feedlots, his attitude stilted and cool.

Foals were already being dropped, and cattle were growing fat in feedlots and basin pastures.

We were in Billings then, and I did some work at the feedlots when I could.