Articles from LivestockCity

March Madness Sale Dates Announced Llamas – March 1-4 Cattle – March 5-8 Pigs – March 9-12 Alpacas – March 13-16 Goats – March 17-20 Sheep – March 21-24 Horses – March 25-28   Sales Terms: 1. No fees on unsold animals. 2. 10% commission on all animals that sell as a result of being in the sale. 3. Bidders cannot bid on their own animals. For more auction details, contact us.  A FAQ is Read more…

History of the March Madness Sale After a long break from it, I decided to bring back the sale I was known for in the llama industry, the March Madness Sale.  I am Jim White, co-founder and CEO of LivestockCity.  Prior to working on LivestockCity, I ran a couple sites called LlamaSalesList.Com and AlpacaSalesList.Com.  Starting in 2003, I first created LlamaSalesList as a site for breeders to post llamas they wanted to sell. Then in Read more…

LivestockCity is excited to announce our first ever online auction of cattle, horses, llamas, alpacas, sheep, goats, and pigs! This event will take place during the month of March 2023, with a separate sale for each animal type. Each sale will run for 4 days and will be online only. We are now accepting consignments from farms for this auction. If you are interested in participating, here are the steps to consign your animals: Sign Read more…

Sometimes we may feature interviews with our users.  They could be farmers, farm vendors, etc. Here we conduct an interview with an unusual and early adopter of LivestockCity.   His name is “Testcrash Dummy” and he is a pretty funny guy.  We wondered why he would join LivestockCity.  Read our interview with Testcrash below.   Q: You seem like the most unlikely “person” to join a farming platform.  Why did you do it? A: Actually, Read more…

What a year this has been for LivestockCity!  We accomplished so much.   In January 2021, we began recoding our entire site from using ASP.NET/C# to Django/Python.  This was a tremendous amount of work!  But it was necessary to expand resource options. Around April of 2022, we had finally recoded everything that was online prior to 2021.  The end result is a website that loads quickly, with much less errors and bugs.  This was a Read more…

Welcome to LivestockCity’s blog.  Here, we will bring the latest news and happenings around LivestockCity as we continue to grow.   We will have newsletters posted here most months.  Other features may be “How-to” article on making the most usage of what LivestockCity has to offer.   We will sometimes have articles written by guest authors.  [sibwp_form id=1]