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 ...

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 ...

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. -- 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 ...

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 ...

Live cattle futures saw losses of 85 cents to $1.15 on Wednesday. There were another 20 deliveries tendered on Wednesday.

Online buying is the wave of the future and sale barns in several states are making it happen right in the auction show ring. It is a fact that livestock markets are declining in numbers across 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 ...