livestock trade
Selling farm animals
The livestock trade is the buying and selling of farm animals—cattle, sheep, pigs, goats, and poultry raised for food, fiber, or labor.
The term covers local transactions at auction yards and the global commerce in live animals: The livestock trade between Australia and Southeast Asia faces ongoing scrutiny.
It also encompasses the infrastructure of dealers, transporters, and markets that move animals from farms to slaughterhouses.
- pigsDomesticated farm swine
- sheepWoolly farm animal
- cattleDomesticated bovines kept commercially
- goatsHorned farm ruminants
- cattle yardFenced livestock holding area
sale barn · wholesale · droving · export · auction · market day · transportation · health inspections · hoof and mouth · pastoralism · breeding · retail · head count · poultry · permits · quarantine · feeding · pricing
- cattle ranchingcattle, cattle drive, cattle drives, cattle auctions, cattle branding
- food tradealmonds, farm produce, walnuts, fresh produce, olive oil
- ancient tradeSilk Road, caravan routes, sea routes, river routes, maritime routes
- barter typesswap, swaps, exchange, exchanges, countertrade
- historical tradebarter, Silk Road, bartering, barter system, marketplaces
- prehistoric commercebarter, obsidian, flint tools, shell beads, amber
livestock tradewildlife conservation
Protecting animals and ecosystems
animal rescue · animal liberation · wildlife preservation · pet keeping · animal welfare