We visited the Billing Livestock Commission to try to understand what a $4/pound cow looks like as beef prices in the U.S.

JAMESTOWN, N.D. — In a normal summer, the Jamestown livestock auction goes through a slow season, running once every two weeks. That is not the case this year. Now selling every Tuesday, their numbers ...

Cattle made their way around the show ring at the Kist Livestock Auction in Mandan on Nov. 5, 2025. (Photo by Michael ...

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 ...

The live cattle markets — which represent delivery of full-grown, ready-for-slaughter cattle — have been under a little bit ...

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 ...

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 ...

Each year, the corporation donates beef from The Big E’s 4-H beef sale to local non-profit food pantries, including The ...

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 ...