After seven decades in operation, Lubbock Feeders, a 50,000-head capacity Texas feedyard that helped define cattle feeding on the South Plains, has announced it will shut down once current inventories are finished.
Established in 1955, the yard fed more than 5 million head of cattle over its lifetime and became both an economic engine and cultural landmark for the region. Locals often joked that when you could smell the yard on a warm West Texas day, it “smelled like money.”
Now, after 70 years, that chapter is ending…