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

Livestock auction markets are crucial to the cattle industry, providing an essential service to farmers and ranchers, especially small producers. Lee Pitts, a well-known columnist, rancher, and owner ...

Joe Varner, whose Fergus Falls, Minn., livestock auction barn hosted a major auctioneer championship earlier this month, has been charged with stealing cattle from a Watertown, S.D., auction barn of ...

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 ...

KEARNEY - Auction day at a Nebraska sale barn remains a quintessential cattle country tradition. A fast-talking auctioneer in a cowboy hat closely watches his audience - mostly men in boots, jeans and ...

LAKEWOOD — Nearly 30 cattle once belonging to a Sterling man were sold at auction on May 12 by the Colorado Department of Agriculture. The 28 animals seized by staff from CDA’s Bureau of Animal ...

On the edge of a thriving downtown dotted with luxury hotels and trendy restaurants is a more than 100-year-old relic of Oklahoma City’s western heritage: One of the world’s largest cattle stockyards.

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. THREE FORKS - In addition to the buyers and sellers, plenty of spectators filled the stands of ...

Kansas State University researchers have completed a large study of 211 livestock video auctions, analyzing the sale of more than 60,000 beef calf and feeder cattle lots to determine the effect 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 ...

The red and white barn in Collierville held cattle auctions for decades and served as a social center for rural life. Now it has closed its doors for good. The words on the outside of the building on ...