Auctions typically follow a competitive bidding process, in which potential buyers bid against each other until the highest offer is accepted. Within pens or encircling rings, animals take center ...

Scott Varilek with Kooima Kooima Varilek says Thursday saw the volume of live sale prices at $220, up $10 from last week but ...

Live cattle futures are rallying back on Friday, with contracts $1 to $2.60 higher. December options expire today. Cash trade kicked off kicked off with $220-222 action in the north. Sothern action ...

JAMESTOWN, N.D. — In a normal summer, the Jamestown livestock auction goes through a slow season, running once every two weeks. That is not the case this year. Now selling every Tuesday, their numbers ...

Many interesting things happen at a livestock auction. One buyer was telling me that another buyer had bought a set of feeder heifers that were not guaranteed open. When he had the veterinarian preg ...

We visited the Billing Livestock Commission to try to understand what a $4/pound cow looks like as beef prices in the U.S.

WATERTOWN, S.D. -- Around sunup every Tuesday morning, farmers, ranchers and hundreds, sometimes thousands of head of cattle are all on the road in pickups and semi-trucks, converging on a modest ...

On the edge of a thriving downtown dotted with luxury hotels and trendy restaurants is a more than 100-year-old relic of ...

Northern Livestock Auction in Minot, N.D., is closing, but the business could reopen under different ownership at a new location in the Minot area, a co-owner of the company says. "I can't tell you ...

BILLINGS, Mont. -- Cattle broker Jeff Ferguson can buy livestock without getting his boots dirty. He doesn't even have to leave the office. Instead, he looks the animals over and places his bids via ...

CHEHALIS, Wash. — Auction day at the Chehalis Livestock Market begins with a flurry of activity behind the scenes, as hundreds of cattle from area ranches arrive at the sale barn adjacent to ...