In the largest cattle-producing states, as much as 80% of the livestock sold are sold at a local livestock auction. Local auction markets provide the most trusted and secure way to get the best price ...

Easy access and flexibility are benefits to livestock auction markets. State of the Beef Industry survey respondents share ...

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 ...

Dave Peine has been selling cattle at the South St. Paul stockyards and directly to local meatpacking companies nearly all his life. But last month, the second-generation livestock producer auctioned ...

Emily Hoene is shown with this year's Bartholomew County Grand Champion steer, after a virtual competition earlier this month. Submitted photo The annual Bartholomew County 4-H Livestock Auction is ...

FAYETTEVILLE -- Farmers irritated by repeated trips to "Facebook jail" for trying to buy or sell livestock on the social media platform have been searching for online options to post their interest in ...

Live cattle futures fell the $7.25 limit on Friday, with October the lone contract not locked the limit, but still $5.97 ...

Montanahas finally put a little red meat into its old-time process of recording livestock branding. The state just wrapped up a once-per-decade process that requires branding information for livestock ...

Kansas, the historic linchpin of the American cattle industry and a leading beef producer, is for the first time in state history migrating its cattle brand registration process entirely online. The ...