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 ...

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 ...

Ella Levin stands with her steer she raised at her family’s home as a part of her 4-H training. The 1,200-pound steer will be sold at the upcoming PCJLSI online auction with the majority of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

BILLINGS — For Montana cattle buyer Jeff Ferguson, finding cattle to suit his clients' tastes used to mean spending entire days at a sales barn or traveling hours to far-flung ranch es. In Wyoming, ...

The Napa Town & Country Fair’s famed Junior Livestock Auction broke its own record, organizers said, raising $2.22 million from the various hogs, lambs, goats, sheep, cattle, turkeys, rabbits and ...

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 ...

COPAN, Okla. — The Osage Nation Ranch auctioned off more than 500 head of cattle at the Bluestem Special Cattle Auction on Wednesday. The annual sale was held at the Mullendore Cross Bell Ranch, ...