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 ...

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 ...

Some cattle auctions in parts of the country report smaller crowds and lower prices due to a case of mad cow disease in Washington state; however, it was standing room only at the Oxford Livestock ...