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2. Livestock transportation - Wikipedia

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   Throughout most of human prehistory and history, the primary means of livestock transportation was by droving.The reason was usually either for seasonal grazing movement (to move them to a summer grazing range or to move them to an overwintering range or shelter) or to bring them to market of one form or another, whether bartering livestock (between farmers) or selling them (whether as stores ...

3. Cattle wagon - Wikipedia

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   A cattle wagon or a livestock wagon is a type of railway vehicle designed to carry livestock.Within the classification system of the International Union of Railways they fall under Class H - special covered wagons - which, in turn are part of the group of covered goods wagons, although cattle have historically also been transported in open goods wagons.

4. Stock car (rail) - Wikipedia

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   Driving cattle across the plains led to tremendous weight loss, and a number of animals were typically lost along the way. Upon arrival at the local processing plant, livestock were either slaughtered by wholesalers and delivered fresh to nearby butcher shops for retail sale, smoked, or packed for shipment in barrels of salt.

5. Cattle drives in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Cattle drives represented a compromise between the desire to get cattle to market as quickly as possible and the need to maintain the animals at a marketable weight. While cattle could be driven as far as 25 miles (40 km) in a single day, they would lose so much weight that they would be hard to sell when they reached the end of the trail.

6. Wilson Trailer Company - Wikipedia

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   Wilson Trailer Company is an Iowa corporation, independent (privately held) cargo trailer manufacturer headquartered in Sioux City.Wilson manufactures (i) industrial road transport trailers for livestock, grain, and the like – flatbed and gooseneck design, aluminum and custom – and (ii) trailer-equipment and accessories such as self-unloading belt conveyors.

7. Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo - Wikipedia

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   The 2023 Stock Show also set a record for the highest purchase price at the Sale of Champions, when a 1,343-pound black European Cross named "Snoop Dog" was sold at auction by a 15-year old 4-H student from Canyon, Texas to local insurance company Higginbotham & Associates for a winning bid of $440,000. [11]