Providing better protection for sellers when a livestock dealer goes broke is one of the top policy priorities of the Livestock Marketing Association. That and other topics will likely be discussed when the livestock marketing council of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association meets in conjunction with NCBA's summer conference at the Gaylord Rockies Resort in Denver July 28-31. Livestock auctions, as opposed to dealers, sometimes run into financial problems of their own, as a recent case in Northwest Kansas makes clear...
