Confinement feeding became more practical by the mid-1950s because: Group of answer choices Farmland prices remained low, which allowed farmers to dedicate more land to live-cycle housing. Farmers had little incentive to pasture stock because grass fed/range fed cattle did not command high prices on the market. Antibiotics controlled disease outbreaks, which made possible confinement of hogs in life-cycle housing and cattle in feedlots and loafing sheds