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 ...

Social relationships build a sense of community and belonging. For farming and ranching, one of those communities is the ...

Iowa cattle producers and sale barns who sold cattle to a defunct Postville slaughterhouse before it filed for bankruptcy received some disturbing mail this week. The trustee for the U.S. Bankruptcy ...

YANKTON COUNTY, S.D. -- Greg Ryken is starting a new era for Stockmen's Livestock Inc., which has long been one of southeast South Dakota's biggest sale barns. Former owner Gail Sohler, whose family ...

Even if you were raised an Iowa town kid like me, you have to love the farm-rich sights, sounds, tastes and smells of the small-town livestock auction house. You’ll find the best of these at Kalona ...

The roots of the Black Hills Stock Show and Rodeo go back to livestock shows and sales. And those are still going strong ...

Pigs come into the barn at between 35 and 50 pounds and leave at market rate between 280 and 300 pounds. The Quandts’ two barns are large enough to hold 4,800 head of finisher pigs. The animals ...

YANKTON COUNTY, S.D. - Greg Ryken is starting a new era for Stockmen’s Livestock Inc., which has long been one of southeast South Dakota’s biggest sale barns. Former owner Gail Sohler, whose family ...