Virginia beef cattle prices pick up as scare recedes
FRONT ROYAL, Va. -- Family farmer David Foltz eyed bull calves and tracked prices at a cattle auction this week, relieved with figures that came out of auctioneer Gary Vance's fast-moving mouth. "Two weeks ago [prices] were down quite a bit. Things have picked up now," he said at Virginia Livestock, a Front Royal-based company that auctions cattle each Thursday.Source: Washington Times