Dead or alive: How best to trade?

摘要

There is a certain nostalgia associated with trading livestock at a live mart - it is, after all, a system that has operated well for more than 200 years.But livestock farming is a business with tight margins, so it's not nostalgia that keeps farmers returning to the auction mart week after week.Livestock Auctioneers' Association (LAA) secretary Chris Dodds describes it as the fairest method of trading and valuing livestock - an "independent, transparent, open and competitive forum".