Sales no longer require traveling long hours to far-flung locations. BILLINGS -- For Montana cattle buyer Jeff Ferguson, finding cattle to suit his clients' tastes used to mean spending entire days at ...

SAN DIEGO - A proposal for an online auction that could shake up the U.S. pricing model for cattle is set to make its public debut on Friday after a test run last week, with the support of a unit of ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) _ 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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

BEAUMONT, Texas — Every year the Young Men's Business League - South Texas Fair & Rodeo hosts a livestock show and auction. They're back on this year after COVID-19 paused 2020's showing. Now the ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. A bill seeking to modernize regulations for Montana livestock auctions easily passed an initial ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Thursday it will require meat packers to report cattle purchases they make through online auctions to the agency starting next week, a move ...

We have all been doing it this year—with a pandemic becoming a new way of life, fear of crowds and less options on store shelves, online shopping has just become the way we are getting through 2020.

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 ...