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 ...

Since 1963, the Livestock Marketing Association (LMA) has been showcasing the talent of auctioneers from across North America ...

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 ...

Many interesting things happen at a livestock auction. One buyer was telling me that another buyer had bought a set of feeder heifers that were not guaranteed open. When he had the veterinarian preg ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 120th National Western Stock Show, which closes Sunday, saw a standing-room only crowd in the CoBank auction arena at the ...

The Montana Livestock Auction at Ramsey, Montana—a few miles west of Butte, Montana—had an up-and-down history in its early ...

MADRAS — Inside Jefferson County’s livestock auction house, a crowd of mostly men in work jeans and checkered shirts quietly bid on cattle as an auctioneer asks the crowd to make higher offers. As ...

BREEN – The family-owned and operated High Country Cattle Auction is “in the bones” of the Cugnini family, said third-generation owner Chris Cugnini. The business was founded by Chris’ grandfather, ...