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JOURNAL OF PEASANT STUDIES
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ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2023.2284973
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Feedlots; CAFOs; Corn Belt; rangelands; livestock breeds; ranching; pastoralism; metabolic rift
Debates on modern beef production overlook a significant historical factor - the closed nutrient loop used in feedlots for over a century to maintain soil fertility. The development of cattle-grain-beef complex due to industrial capitalist urbanization has impacted land use, tenure systems, management practices, and environmental politics, leading to the sacrifice of tall-grass prairies and disrupted agrarian resistance.
Debates about modern beef production suffer from a major historical blind spot. For over a century, the feedlot relied on a closed nutrient loop to sustain soil fertility in the United States Corn Belt. Driven by industrial capitalist urbanization, a cattle-grain-beef complex shaped land use, tenure systems, management practices and environmental politics on the expanding frontier, sacrificing the tall-grass prairies and fracturing agrarian resistance to corporate concentration and the Union Stock Yards. Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) emerged after 1950, breaking the nutrient cycle of the original feedlot and turning the relationship between ranching and agriculture into a dysfunctional one.
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