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 ...

A cow at the Sierra Foothill Research and Extension Center in Browns Valley being tracked as part of research by Ph.D. Maggie Creamer and Associate Professor Kristina Horback into cattle grazing ...

Understanding cattle and how auctions work was no problem because he'd attended many sales with his dad and on his own. "I was buying cattle and running yearlings, so it wasn't anything new to me," ...

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 ...

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 ...

Understanding normal, or in this case average, performance allows producers to better understand how to guide the herd. The cattle industry is established, so in many cases, producers are striving to ...

New research finds that not all cattle are the same when it comes to grazing, and knowing that could lead to better animal health and range conditions. Not all cattle are the same when it comes to ...

A cow at the Sierra Foothill Research and Extension Center in Browns Valley being tracked as part of research on cattle grazing personalities. (Maggie Creamer/UC Davis) Not all cattle are the same ...