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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.
In 1992, Agriprocessors added poultry to its offerings. At its peak the plant employed over 800 people, slaughtering more than 500 head of cattle each day in kosher production. The sales, according to numbers given to Cattle Buyers Weekly, rose from $80 million in 1997 to $180 million in 2002 and may have reached $250 million or more. [4]
When he died, Iliff's empire included 15,558 acres of prime land and 26,000 head of cattle, worth millions today. [3] He became the largest and most successful cattle entrepreneur the west had ever produced. "No man was ever known on the frontier who had Mr. Iliff's genius for handling cattle and conducting successfully large operations." [4]
Iowa is the fifth largest cattle-producing state and had 630,000 cattle in feedlots on July 1, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The USDA offers disaster assistance that may help ...
Northern International Livestock Exposition (NILE) originated as an idea from the livestock committee of the Billings Chamber of Commerce in 1966. In 1967, the Public Auction Yards hosted an event to showcase the region’s vast livestock industry. [1] By the fall of 1968, a full-fledged livestock show with 250 exhibitors and 600 entries was ...
Auction chanting is a method of conducting live auctions frequently found in North America where it is practiced in English, Spanish, French and other languages. It is much less common outside North America, [ citation needed ] and the most notable exceptions within North America are auction houses with significant ties elsewhere in the world ...
A steer. The Texas Longhorn is an American breed of beef cattle, characterized by its long horns, which can span more than 8 ft (2.4 m) from tip to tip. [4] It derives from cattle brought from the Iberian Peninsula to the Americas by Spanish conquistadors from the time of the Second Voyage of Christopher Columbus until about 1512. [5]
The Big Die-Up (or Great Die-Up) refers to the death of hundreds of thousands of cattle on the Great Plains of the United States during the unusually cold and snowy winters of 1885-86 and 1886-87. Many ranchers were bankrupted as a result and the era of the open range in which cattle roamed unfenced on the plains began its decline.