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 ...

We call ourselves Marketplace, so part of our job is exploring how marketplaces work, in all their forms. David Brancaccio and the “Marketplace Morning Report” team are setting out to visit in-person ...

Local livestock auction yards have been around since about the time cattle were first introduced as a commercialized American ...

This year’s show comes at a time with beef prices at record highs. That’s because, in large part, the U.S. cattle population is at a 75-year low. It’s called the “Super Bowl” of livestock events. The ...

A group of eight stray sheep will be sold Friday morning in Pittsboro. North Carolina law states that livestock whose owners can't be found must be sold at a public auction. By Mark Bergin, WRAL ...

Participants show lambs during the Junior Market Lamb Show at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo in 2024. Haisley Layne, a fifth grader from Freestone County near Waco, is among the hundreds of ...

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.