livestock trading
Buying and selling cattle
Livestock trading is the buying and selling of farm animals—cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, poultry—typically for breeding, fattening, or slaughter.
Trading happens at auction houses, through dealers, or increasingly online.
He made his living in livestock trading, buying calves in spring and selling them as feeders in fall.
- fair priceCost reflecting true value
- auctionCompetitive public sale
- sale barnLivestock auction facility
- cattleDomesticated bovines kept commercially
- sheepWoolly farm animal
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