cattle auction
Herd selling event
A cattle auction is a public sale where livestock—primarily cows, bulls, and calves—are sold to the highest bidder.
Buyers and sellers gather at auction houses or stockyards where animals are paraded through a ring while an auctioneer calls bids in rapid-fire chant.
The format sets market prices for beef and breeding stock across agricultural regions: We picked up twenty head at the cattle auction last week.
- livestockDomesticated farm animals
- biddingOffering prices or obeying
- going onceAuctioneer's initial announcement
- sold signMarker indicating completed sale
- gavelSmall ceremonial hammer
stockyard · sale barn · rancher · herd · corral · paddock · buyer · seller · reserve price · hammer · ring · lot · bulls · cows · calves · chute · loading chute · pen
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