Source: Vicki Hyatt, THE MOUNTAINEER, 6/5/20

 Stock trailers and makeshift cages lined the winding road at the Southeast Livestock Exchange as individuals from across Western North Carolina awaited the arrival of bargain hogs. Cattle and an occasional goat are traditionally sold at the stockyards, and the facility isn't set up for hogs, said operator John Queen. However, circumstances created by a glut in the hog market required quick action and those who push cattle through the chutes regularly quickly became "pig handlers." 

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