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 ...

Local livestock auction yards have been around since about the time cattle were first introduced as a commercialized American food source and they are the epitome of a robustly competitive market.

In the largest cattle-producing states, as much as 80% of the livestock sold are sold at a local livestock auction. Local auction markets provide the most trusted and secure way to get the best price ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... LA JUNTA — Standing in the auctioneer’s booth at the La Junta Winter Livestock auction barn, longtime rancher and auctioneer John Campbell has watched as pen ...