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Stock and station agencies are businesses which provide a support service to the agricultural community. Their staff who deal with clients are known as stock and station agents . [ note 1 ] They advise and represent farmers and graziers in business transactions that involve livestock, wool, fertiliser, rural property and equipment and ...
Various abattoirs would relocate to the Junction area including Harris Abattoir Company (1913), Gunns Limited (1907) and Swift Canadian (1911). Ownership of Union Stockyards from Harris (merged with Davies and Gunn in 1927 to form Canada Packers ) and Swift were sold to US-based United Stockyards in the 1930s and prompted the Government of ...
With the Kansas City Livestock Exchange and the Stockyards, cattle were sold to the highest bidder. The stockyards were built around the facilities of the Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express Company which had outfitted travelers on the Santa Fe Trail and Oregon Trail following the Kansas River .
In 1973, the Union Stockyards Company was sold to the Canal Capital Corporation of New York. Led by companies like IBP, the meatpacking industry started moving slaughterhouses closer to cattle feedlots in rural areas, where they hired non-union workers. [11] In Omaha, trading was centered at the Livestock Exchange Building. In 1997, the ...
Northern International Livestock Exposition (NILE) originated as an idea from the livestock committee of the Billings Chamber of Commerce in 1966. In 1967, the Public Auction Yards hosted an event to showcase the region’s vast livestock industry. [1] By the fall of 1968, a full-fledged livestock show with 250 exhibitors and 600 entries was ...
Construction began in 1909 and was completed in 1911, as the largest livestock exchange building in the world. [2] In 1957, a one-story addition was constructed on the south side for the Golden Ox restaurant which had opened in 1949.
Over a hundred 84 Plus stores opened in the United States. [3] The early 2000s proved to be successful for 84 Lumber. In 2002, the company hit record sales and in 2004, they opened 18 new stores. [1] In 2008, however, 84 Lumber’s profits plummeted when the housing market crashed and brought the building supplies market down with it.
The World Livestock Auctioneer Championship is an annual competition of livestock auctioneers who practice the auction chant typical of rural areas in the United States and Canada. The competition is sponsored by the Livestock Marketing Association and was first held in 1963. [1] Brian Curless won the competition in 2017.