Posted on 02/03/2025 1:22:37 AM PST by Libloather
On the edge of a thriving downtown dotted with luxury hotels and trendy restaurants is a more than 100-year-old relic of Oklahoma City’s western heritage: One of the world’s largest cattle stockyards.
But maybe not for much longer.
The Oklahoma National Stockyards — the last big-city stockyard in the U.S. — is for sale. The $27 million price tag includes 100 acres (40 hectares) of prime property along the Oklahoma River in a growing city of roughly 700,000 residents, where a state-of-the-art NBA arena is set to break ground and a developer is pushing plans for the country’s tallest skyscraper.
Although the stockyard’s owners are hopeful a buyer will keep the cattle coming, they acknowledge the land is attractive for redevelopment.
The sale is a sign of the times for livestock auctions and America’s cattle market, a volatile industry squeezed in recent years by drought, higher production costs and the lowest number of cattle in the U.S. since the 1950s.
President Donald Trump’s imposition of tariffs on imported goods has created uncertainty in the industry, although the potential impact is not yet clear. The U.S. is the world’s largest producer of beef but is still a net beef importer, with Canada and Mexico among the top countries accounting for U.S. beef imports.
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If we’re a net importer now, I’d think tariffs would boost the local industry. (And the auction could move to less expensive land.)
Eat more chicken...
It is meat and right so to do.
“Livestock auctions could be coming to an end at America’s last big-city stockyard”
A few more Democrat wins and we’ll be trying to describe to our grandchildren what eating a steak is like.
Because Omaha is not ghetto enough.
I bet the new stock yard costs more than the old one.
Does Fort Worth still have its stockyards?
Yea, it is very meat, right, and our bounden duty . . .
Big cities have left a trail of ruin and failure across America since the 1960s. Tens of millions have abandoned big cities.
This is another stupid article by the liars at AP to prop up the Marxist dream of forcing populations into dysfunctional crapholes, while the Stalinist masters live in lakeside dachas.
Just in the last week or two cow - calf pairs sold for $4,750 if you can find them. Cattle numbers are horribly low. Beef prices will keep going up. Feed is through the roof. Maybe if we stop using corn for fuel prices will creep back down. So many older people around here are going out of the cattle business the numbers at the local stock yard are way down. The land is going to the children who don't want cows, don't have any need for the land but expect high rents from the remaining people who manage cows who can't pay that much. I can see why in many cases because the "renter" I have does a lousy job of taking care of things. There is much more to animal husbandry than putting them out on pasture. I'll put up with him until the grass greens up but his days are numbered. I enjoy watching the calves.
He does not know enough to keep his bull off the cows and put him out to time births for spring instead of the dead of winter. There were several calves born in the coldest time around Christmas and since. The first warm day they went nuts playing. They had no idea days came in anything but cold, windy and hard. Today they are just wild with joy.
The cattle business has been a good way to turn a lot of money into a little bit of money for a long time unless you are in it commercially and on a big scale.
I remember seeing one in San Antonio many moons ago.
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