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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Showmanship paid off at the Jr. Market Auctions. The junior livestock auction at the Sonoma County Fair featured a lineup of brushed or fluffed goats, pigs and lambs who were trotted into the ring by ...

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 ...

For the first time since 2019, the junior livestock auction returned live and in person to the OC Fair on Saturday. After missing the last two years because of the pandemic (the entire fair was ...

Noble Profitability Essentials Online offers ranchers flexible, self-paced access to financial management tools and ...

Inside the Brisco Carpenter Livestock Center at the State Fair of Texas, prize-winning livestock were lined up in Grand Champion's row. "This is Blondie," Aven Horn said answering passers-by's ...

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 ...

Carla Clark | For The Republic ICT places the winning bid for the grand champion barrow shown by Lila Johns during the Bartholomew County 4-H Livestock Sale, in the pavilion at the Bartholomew County ...

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 ...

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, ...