A stockyard is an enclosure for the handling or keeping of livestock.^[1] In the United States, stockyards are regulated by the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration. They are sometimes associated with slaughterhouses.

Some stockyards include:

• Omaha Stockyards, Nebraska, USA
• Kansas City Stockyards, Missouri, USA
• Fort Worth Stockyards, Texas, USA
• Union Stock Yards, Chicago, Illinois, USA
• Blue Grass Stockyards, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
• The Junction (northwest quadrant nicknamed Stockyards), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Cleveland Union Stockyards Co., Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Other uses:

• Stockyard Landing, original name of Arabi, Louisiana
• Stockyard, Queensland, Australia
• Stockyards, California, former town
• The Stockyard Stoics, a punk rock band
• [1]Stockyard, rock band - early 1970s - from Amsterdam - Netherlands
• STOCKYARD Magazine, a Chicago-based publication.
• A stock yard can also refer to various storage yards used in mining, manufacturing, and transportation of goods.

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