Bejot feedlot farm is located in the small rural town of Ainsworth (population c. 1,500), Brown County, Nebraska. Joint-owner Tom Bejot describes the farm enterprise as a “small family-run business”.
While he speaks the truth in relative Nebraska terms, the operation’s scale is hard to fathom from an Irish perspective.
13,300 – farm’s Environmental Protection Agency-granted cattle capacity. 3,400 – farm’s acreage, 250 of which makes up the feed yard with the vast majority of the balance under corn. 7 – different diet specs fed 2.5 – kilos of daily weight gain in Tom’s top finishing heifers
25-60 – % of animals typically fed on contract, the Bejot family own the rest16 – employees on the farm, including management15 – GPS-driven irrigation pivots on the farm to grow the corn, averaging 1,250ft in length300 – gallons per minute of water usage on the farm70 to 100 – estimated added value in dollars per head generated via the use of hormone-based implants2 – feeding trucks operating full-time. Cattle are fed twice daily
2 – different presidential votes in Tom’s household. He voted Trump and his wife for Clinton12,000 – tonnes of corn silage pitted in the yard. Along with 265,000 bushels of high moisture corn
70 - % grain in finishing diet71 – cost (cents) per pound of weight gain on the farm (equivalent €1.44/kg)230 - bushels per acre of yield from corn, on average60,000 – capacity of a neighbouring feedlot Read full reports on Bejot feedlot in the coming weeks on farmersjournal.ie
Bejot feedlot farm is located in the small rural town of Ainsworth (population c. 1,500), Brown County, Nebraska. Joint-owner Tom Bejot describes the farm enterprise as a “small family-run business”.
While he speaks the truth in relative Nebraska terms, the operation’s scale is hard to fathom from an Irish perspective.
13,300 – farm’s Environmental Protection Agency-granted cattle capacity. 3,400 – farm’s acreage, 250 of which makes up the feed yard with the vast majority of the balance under corn. 7 – different diet specs fed 2.5 – kilos of daily weight gain in Tom’s top finishing heifers
25-60 – % of animals typically fed on contract, the Bejot family own the rest16 – employees on the farm, including management15 – GPS-driven irrigation pivots on the farm to grow the corn, averaging 1,250ft in length300 – gallons per minute of water usage on the farm70 to 100 – estimated added value in dollars per head generated via the use of hormone-based implants2 – feeding trucks operating full-time. Cattle are fed twice daily
2 – different presidential votes in Tom’s household. He voted Trump and his wife for Clinton12,000 – tonnes of corn silage pitted in the yard. Along with 265,000 bushels of high moisture corn
70 - % grain in finishing diet71 – cost (cents) per pound of weight gain on the farm (equivalent €1.44/kg)230 - bushels per acre of yield from corn, on average60,000 – capacity of a neighbouring feedlot Read full reports on Bejot feedlot in the coming weeks on farmersjournal.ie
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