Local livestock auction yards have been around since about the time cattle were first introduced as a commercialized American food source and they are the epitome of a robustly competitive market.

Local livestock auctions offer farmers and ranchers social interaction, networking opportunities and great food.

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 ...

SEQUIM — The Clallam County Junior Livestock Auction will be conducted next month. This year’s show days are Aug. 1-2, and the auction is set for 2 p.m. Aug. 3 at the Sequim Prairie Grange, 290 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A swirl of emotion crossed Maddie Peterson’s face as she heard the bids coming in for her 1,422-pound steer on the last day of the ...

The highest bidder was Klein’s Family Markets, which bought a 1,322-pound steer from 12-year-old Ella Deford, of Jarrettsville, for $14,524. Ella Deford walks her grand champion market steer around ...

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 ...

The Saturday auction shattered rodeo records.

LANCASTER − Emotions ran high at the Junior Fair Livestock Auction at the Fairfield County Fair on Thursday night as many exhibitors were forced to say goodbye to the livestock they had spent the past ...

Northern Livestock Auction in Minot, N.D., is closing, but the business could reopen under different ownership at a new location in the Minot area, a co-owner of the company says. "I can't tell you ...