A hog auction at the South Florida Fair got a lot of attention this month because the winner thought she was taking home a live pet instead of 186 pounds of butchered pork. The story of Meg Weinberger ...

Auctions typically follow a competitive bidding process, in which potential buyers bid against each other until the highest offer is accepted. Within pens or encircling rings, animals take center ...

Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures closed lower on Friday on cooling wholesale pork prices and profit-taking at week's end, a day after the benchmark October contract set a life-of-contract ...

For the second consecutive year, bidders at the annual Bartholomew County 4-H Livestock Sale were willing to fork over money without receiving an animal in return. Known as a ‘premium-only’ sale, last ...