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 ...

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

Over this past weekend on Oct. 27, the Animal Science Department hosted their annual Beef Cattle Auction at the Cattle Resource Unit at Horsebarn Hill. People from around Connecticut and the New ...

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 ...

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 ...

DENVER - In between the rodeos, horse shows and parades, the real business at the National Western Stock Show goes on in the stockyards and sales barns: Ranchers are buying hundreds if not thousands ...

PROVO, Utah — From time to time, if the Utah County Sheriff’s Office finds wandering livestock, and can’t locate the rightful owner, they’ll put them up for auction. The person who found them ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Overbrook? A 1,500-pound cow was pushed into the small ring before a crowd of prospective buyers Monday at the Overbrook Livestock Sale Barn and immediately turned cranky. It pawed the ground ...