By Stephen Smoot
Potomac Highlands livestock producers received a shock in recent weeks. One of the most respected livestock exchanges in the Eastern United States, South Branch Livestock Exchange, would go up for auction after about nine decades. With processes prioritizing health and care of animals and guardianship of more-than-three-century-old lines of cattle genetics, the stockyards earned a national reputation for both quality and quantity of cattle sold there.
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