 As cattle feeding has grown in North Dakota, we are seeing new investment in feeding facilities and renovations for expansion and compliance. Open lots with runoff containment ponds predominate, but there has been some confinement hoop barns put in use. Advantages are the ability to locate in environmentally sensitive or space-limited farmsteads to provide better wind protection, snow protection, summer shade, high animal performance and greater ease in handling cattle. This relatively new barn is 300 feet long by 42 feet wide, divided with a 12 foot feeding pad and a fence-lined bunk, leaving a 30 foot resting area. An eve covers the bunk with the barn divided midway with a watering pad and fountains, resulting in two feeding pens with 150 head capacity each, allowing one foot of bunk and 42 square feet per calf. It's constructed with cement pony walls, i-beam supports, truss pipe rafters and covered with a tarp with an open ridge and a roll-up side curtain. Feeding structures are available with square posts and plank construction and widths from 36 to 50 feet and lengths up to 500 feet. Maneuring bedding management is critical. The feeding alley is scraped weekly or as weather allows. Bedding is blown in with a bail processor or unrolled and pens frequently to keep dry. The resting area is typically cleaned between feeding groups. Depended on location preparation, construction materials, design and labor, costs can vary from less than 400 in animal space to over double that. After cattle performance and health has been good, often the initial experience with a first hoop barn leads to expansion with additional barns in the future.