A step on to Canada’s largest feedlot …and the ranchers bucking the trend to go grass-fed

Canada’s single largest feedlot facility holds around 75,000 cattle. It would make up 40% of the 889,000 total suckler beef cows in the entire Republic of Ireland.

The facility goes through hundreds of tonnes of maize a week.

It’s no exaggeration to say that there are tens of thousands of cattle, as far as the eye can see, in the pens at Lakeside Feeders in Brooks, Southern Alberta.

As we are driven through the site, it just keeps going on and on, no end in sight, with pathways that go on for literally kilometres.