Stockyard
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Stockyard or Stockyards may refer to:
  • A feedlot
    Feedlot
    A feedlot or feedyard is a type of animal feeding operation which is used in factory farming for finishing livestock, notably beef cattle, but also swine, horses, sheep, turkeys, chickens or ducks, prior to slaughter. Large beef feedlots are called Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations . They...

     or other gathering point for livestock, especially cattle.
  • Stockyards, California, former town
  • STOCKYARD Magazine
    STOCKYARD Magazine
    STOCKYARD was an American online cultural magazine that focused on society, art, and literature; it published fiction, poetry, social commentary, political commentary, satire, reportage, and reviews. Started in 2008, it matured into a publication relevant to its Chicagoan and international...

    , a Chicago-based publication.
  • Stockyard, Queensland, Australia, locality in the Shire of Livingstone
  • Stockyard, amateur baseball team in the Boston Park League
    Boston Park League
    The Boston Park League, located in Boston, Massachusetts, is the oldest amateur baseball league in the United States.-History:The Boston Park League was founded in 1929 by Bob Cusick, program director for the Boston Parks and Recreation Department...

    , Massachusetts, United States
  • Stockyards, nickname for the northwest quadrant of The Junction
    The Junction
    The Junction is a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that is near the junction of four railway lines in the area known as the West Toronto Diamond. The neighbourhood was previously an independent city called West Toronto, that was also its own federal electoral district until amalgamating...

    , Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • Stockyard Landing, original name of Arabi, Louisiana
    Arabi, Louisiana
    Arabi is a census-designated place in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana on the East Bank of the Mississippi River, between the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans, Louisiana and Chalmette within the Greater New Orleans Metropolitan area...


See also

  • Meat packing industry
    Meat packing industry
    The meat packing industry handles the slaughtering, processing, packaging, and distribution of animals such as cattle, pigs, sheep and other livestock...

  • Yard (disambiguation)
    Yard (disambiguation)
    A yard is an imperial/US customary unit of length .Yard may also refer to:*Square yard, an imperial/US customary unit of area...

  • Union Stock Yards
    Union Stock Yards
    The Union Stock Yard & Transit Co., or The Yards, was the meat packing district in Chicago for over a century starting in 1865. The district was operated by a group of railroad companies that acquired swampland, and turned it to a centralized processing area...

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