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.

MADRAS — Inside Jefferson County’s livestock auction house, a crowd of mostly men in work jeans and checkered shirts quietly bid on cattle as an auctioneer asks the crowd to make higher offers. As ...

DENVER — The Auction of Junior Livestock Champions at the 2025 National Western Stock Show on Friday pulled in $637,000 across the top eight champion animals, breaking the previous record sale amount ...

The Dec. 1 sale in Sioux County not only sets a farmer-buyer record for Iowa, but according to Jim Rothermich, it highlights fierce demand for premium ground as lower-quality farms see more no sales.

For the second consecutive year, bidders at the annual Bartholomew County 4-H Livestock Sale were willing to fork over money without receiving an animal in return. Known as a ‘premium-only’ sale, last ...

DENVER — The Auction of Junior Livestock Champions at the National Western Stock Show returned Friday night with record-breaking numbers. The full 90 animals in the auction sold for $1,189,500 — ...

The auctioneer was starting to sound a little bit irritated. And he put the gavel down just long enough to say why. "If there's ever a time in our country's history to be thankful for farm youth," he ...