Beefcentral iconBeefcentralSep 25, 2026

Innovation packed into massive new 200,000 head Nebraska feedyard

Imagine a 200,000 head cattle feedyard processing more than 500,000t of corn each year, where the heavily-automated feedmill is manned by just a single employee. It sounds like a piece of fiction speculating about the grainfed industry's distant future, but in reality its already exists, on the sweeping plains of Nebraska in the US, as explained by project co-founder Kee Jim.

Innovation packed into massive new 200,000 head Nebraska feedyard

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Imagine a 200,000 head cattle feedyard processing more than 500,000t of corn each year, where the heavily-automated feedmill is manned by just a single employee.

It sounds like a piece of fiction speculating about the grainfed industry's distant future, but in reality its already exists, on the sweeping plains of Nebraska in the US, as explained by project...

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Imagine a 200,000 head cattle feedyard processing more than 500,000t of corn each year, where the heavily-automated feedmill is manned by just a single employee. It sounds like a piece of fiction speculating about the grainfed industry's distant future, but in reality its already exists, on the sweeping plains of Nebraska in the US, as explained by project co-founder Kee Jim.

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