Edited sentence: , Simplot) gain significant profit from their contracts.Although there are vacancies at long-term holding pens that would save taxpayers $3.7 Million and be safer for horses, the short-term holding companies (e.Conditions at these short-term holding facilities are notoriously harsh – crowded feedlot pens that offer little to no shelter from extreme summer heat or winter winds, snow and cold.From 2015 - 2017, the company earned $8.6 Million helping to round up and keep wild horses in captivity through BLM contracts, making it more difficult for the wild horses that already live precarious lives.Simplot earns money from the short-term holding contracts.Specifically, after controversial wild horse roundups, the BLM contracts with private companies to truck wild horses in cattle trucks to short-term holding facilities, where taxpayers pay over $5 per horse per day to house and feed these animals