Platforms like StockX may relegate livestock sales yards to the past

Platforms like StockX may relegate livestock sales yards to the past
Rebecca Howard
Livestock sales yards may become a thing of the past as New Zealand’s lockdown creates opportunities for niche players like StockX, an online marketplace.Yards would normally be teeming with animals as farmers look to offload stock for winter. Instead they stand empty as they were not deemed essential and therefore not allowed to open.This could have created a massive bottleneck. Instead StockX managing director Jason Roebuck said new account openings have “gone through the roof.”StockX is not the only platform that is available. Others include...

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