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.

You don’t need to see a cattle yard to identify its existence; the smell alone is usually enough. Now, though, you’re breathing in not just the aromatic compounds you likely know well—but a selection ...

To beef up their herds, many cattle ranchers give their livestock steroid growth hormones. Manure-laden runoff from cattle feed yards carries these endocrine-disrupting compounds into the environment, ...

Kansas State University researchers are working on a project to analyze the opportunities available by using drone thermal imaging in cattle feed yards. In a recent episode of Cattle Chat, guest Haley ...

BILLINGS, Mont. - Two more South Dakota livestock auction yards have joined with the four livestock auction yards in North and South Dakota that previously announced they would be hosting meetings ...

Superbugs may be blowing in the wind. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria from cattle yards are airborne and can be spread to humans on dust particles, a new study revealed. This means dangerous microbes ...

LUBBOCK, Texas, April 1 (UPI) --Researchers in Texas say they've located a new route by which drug-resistant bacteria can travel and spread to humans -- the air. Antibiotics and antibiotic-resistant ...

MOSES LAKE, Wash. — Northcentral Washington hasn’t had a livestock sale yard in years, but that’s changing with the Aug. 14 grand reopening of Central Washington Livestock LLC near Moses Lake. Tyler ...

Twenty jobs have been saved at the 60,000-capacity cattle yard, whose closure is related to the shutdown of Cargill’s beef processing plant in Plainview, Texas, in February 2013. Drought, which ...