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Kansas City Stockyards (1909) Kansas City Stockyards with the Livestock Exchange Building (1904) View of stockyards & surrounding area (1940s) The stockyards were built to provide better prices for livestock owners. [citation needed] Previously, livestock owners west of Kansas City could only sell at whatever price the railroad offered. With ...
Lampasas County (/ l æ m ˈ p æ s ə s / lam-PASS-əs) is a county located on the Edwards Plateau in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 21,627. [1] Its county seat is Lampasas. [2] The county is named for the Lampasas River. Lampasas County is part of the Killeen-Temple-Fort Hood metropolitan area.
Lampasas (/ l æ m ˈ p æ s ə s / lam-PASS-əs) is a city in Lampasas County, Texas, United States. Its population was 7,291 at the 2020 census. [4] It is the county seat of Lampasas County. [6] Lampasas is part of the Killeen–Temple–Fort Hood metropolitan statistical area.
Live cattle is a type of futures contract that can be used to hedge and to speculate on fed cattle prices. Cattle producers, feedlot operators, and merchant exporters can hedge future selling prices for cattle through trading live cattle futures, and such trading is a common part of a producer's price risk management program. [1]
Location of Lampasas County in Texas. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Lampasas County, Texas. This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Lampasas County, Texas. There are one district and five individual properties listed on the ...
The World Livestock Auctioneer Championship is an annual competition of livestock auctioneers who practice the auction chant typical of rural areas in the United States and Canada. The competition is sponsored by the Livestock Marketing Association and was first held in 1963. [1] Brian Curless won the competition in 2017.
Six local businessmen responded to a request by Wyoming cattle baron Alexander Swan showing interest in a livestock market closer than the Union Stock Yards in Chicago, Illinois. [2] The Company's Union Stockyards in South Omaha were once a fierce rival of Chicago's Union Stock Yards. [3] The Union Stock Yards Company of Omaha was bought out in ...
Cattle are domesticated ungulates, a member of the family Bovidae, in the subfamily Bovinae, and descended from the aurochs (Bos primigenius). [46] They are raised as livestock for their flesh (called beef and veal), dairy products (milk), leather and as draught animals. As of 2009–2010 it is estimated that there are 1.3–1.4 billion head of ...