BILLINGS, Mont. -- A large cattle sale planned Tuesday at Montana's largest livestock auction has been postponed, partly because of market uncertainty following discovery of a Washington state dairy cow infected with mad cow disease.
The sale of an estimated 2,000 head of stock cows and bred heifers at the Public Auction Yards here will be rescheduled later this month, said sale manager Bob Cook.
He said there also were factors other than mad cow: A number of consignors were snowed in and the number of stock cows sold nationally in December, before the mad cow disclosure just before Christmas, was higher than usual.