As a cattle feeder and commodity broker for 45 years, Brad Kooima of Kooima Kooima Varilek in Sioux Center, Iowa, says he’s never seen a time like this, or even a close second, in the cattle market.

It is believed that the right for a market to be held in Melton was probably first granted during the reign of the last but one Saxon Kings, Edward the Confessor – (1042-1066). Following the Norman ...