Acceptance of these terms
By entering beefwave.autos, by writing through the contact form, by calling the office, or by asking BEEFWAVE LLC to list, schedule, match, weigh, truck or settle a pen of cattle, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service and by the Privacy Policy that stands alongside them. If a single clause below is not something you can accept, please stop using the site and do not send consignment instructions to the office.
These terms form a contract between you and BEEFWAVE LLC, 466 N 750 E, Provo - 84606-3329, United States (US). Any separate written agreement we sign for a particular sale or programme will win where it states something different, but everything it leaves silent stays governed by this page.
Because reading law in small print is no fun for ranchers or clerks, we have written each rule in full sentences that say what they mean. Where one line looks lighter than a habit from the buyer ring, the printed sentence here still governs, and we will be glad to talk any clause through on the phone.
Words and meaning used here
A few plain terms run through this whole page, and it saves confusion to pin them down first. The Company means BEEFWAVE LLC at 466 N 750 E, Provo - 84606-3329, United States (US). The Site means this website, beefwave.autos. The Service means the livestock marketing coordination we describe, covering consignment handling, ring booking, buyer matching, weighing, yardwork and settlement support.
Consignor means the rancher, feeder or owner who offers cattle for sale. Buyer means the party that agrees to take the cattle. Lot means the group of cattle treated as one sale unit with one number. Ring means the auction process by which the price is reached. Settlement means the final accounting and payment for a sold lot. Every other word keeps its ordinary dictionary sense; marketing talk never bends the meaning of a contract line.
Nature of the service
BEEFWAVE LLC is a coordination office for a livestock auction ring, not a stockyard that owns the cattle and not a bank that holds the money. Our part is to do the honest busywork of a sale: take the consignment brief, place the pen on a docket, put buyers in reach of the seller, watch the scale, clear the yard and hand over a settlement that adds up.
Nothing on this Site is a promise that a pen will sell at a stated price, that a specific buyer will lift a paddle, or that a head will grade to a number in advance. Livestock prices move with the market hour by hour. The Service gives ranchers the best ring push a fair office can manage; it does not and cannot guarantee an outcome at auction.
Where we act for both the seller side and the buyer side in arranging a ring, each side still deals with us under these same terms. We do not take a secret side from either party, and both see the same settlement arithmetic at the end of the day.
Who may use the site
The Site is aimed at businesses and individuals in the livestock trade. To use it you must be at least eighteen years old or the age of majority where you stand, and you must be able to form a binding contract. If you act for a ranch, a feedlot, a yard or a company, you confirm that you carry authority to bind that business to these terms.
We keep the right to refuse a consignment, a booking or an agreement for any lawful reason, including a record of broken deals, unpaid settlement or behaviour that disturbs the ring. Refusing one service does not injure any existing agreement unless we say so in writing first.
People under eighteen should not send personal details through the contact form and should not consign cattle on their own. The trade side of the fence is for the grown ups, and the Site does not court a younger audience.
Consignment instructions
A consignment begins when a potential consignor tells us what they hold: class of cattle, estimated head count, frame and weight range, health status and the months they want to sell. We record the brief as a lot ticket and match it to a docket. A consignment request is an offer, not an acceptance; the lot is not binding until the office confirms the date and the consignor agrees the entry.
When a consignment is confirmed, the consignor agrees that the cattle described are genuinely theirs to sell or that they hold clear authority to sell them, and that the cattle are free of any lien, brand dispute or legal hold that would block a clean transfer of title to a buyer.
Consigned cattle must meet the health, brand, identification and welfare rules of the sale state and the destination state. If a consignor fails to make that true at delivery, BEEFWAVE LLC may cancel the lot, refuse the pen at the gate or remove it from the ring without penalty to the office, and the consignor bears the cost of the failed day.
Accurate papers and truthful lots
Honesty at the desk is the whole trade of a good ring. The consignor warrants that every description given for a lot is accurate to the best of their knowledge: the class and sex of the animals, their age and weight range, their health and vaccination history and any known condition that a buyer would want told.
The consignor agrees to keep papers current through sale day. A change in head count, a diagnosis, a lost tag or a changed brand must reach the clerk desk before the lot runs, not after the hammer falls. Late truth costs money and faith; a bad lot description can sour a buyer for a whole season.
BEEFWAVE LLC provides listing and coordination, not an independent veterinary or grading opinion on every head. A described lot is presented as the consignor presented it. If the consignor hides a material fact and a buyer later sustains a loss on that fact, the consignor answers for it, and the office will assist any genuine inquiry with the truthful records we hold.
Conduct during the auction
The ring runs on order and on trust. Auction staff announce each lot, the auctioneer calls the bids and the clerk records the winning paddle number and price at the fall of the gavel. A bid once acknowledged by the auctioneer is firm; the bidder cannot pull it back after the hammer, and the seller cannot refuse a genuinely won bid without cause.
The consignor and any agent must not run a false bid to lift a price unless the practice is lawful and openly declared at the ring. Secret bidding in to drive the number up against a buyer is forbidden on this hall floor, and a caught shill bid forfeits the lot and the right to the ring for the season.
All parties present stay mindful of livestock and people. No shouting down the auctioneer, no crowding the chute, no interference with a handler, and no conduct that would unnerve the cattle or the crowd. Staff may remove a person from the hall for a disturbance without refunding any booking, subject to the law of the place.
Buyer obligations
A bidder who wins a lot agrees to take it on the terms posted at sale time, at the accepted price, on the stated weight or grade basis, and to pay by the settlement deadline the office sets. Buyers must hold the identity and licence the trade requires and must show it when the clerk asks.
A winning buyer agrees to remove or accept the lot within the yard hours stated. Failure to collect a bought lot on time may bring yard or feed charges and, after a fair written warning, the office may resell the lot to protect the seller, charging the defaulting buyer the shortfall and the cost of the resale.
Because cattle are living value, a buyer inspects each lot at the viewing pen or takes it on the posted description. Once the hammer falls and the lot is moved out, the cattle are the buyer risk as far as the law and the sale rules allow, subject only to any written guarantee such as a health warranty we state at the ring.
Fees, commissions and charges
The office earns its keep through stated fees. A typical engagement carries a commission on the sold value of each lot, agreed at entry and never hidden in a fine print corner, plus the yard, weighing, health and hauling costs that a particular sale genuinely produces at cost to us. Every figure is itemised on the settlement statement.
All amounts on this site and in our quotes are in United States dollars unless another currency is written. Fees do not include sales tax or other government charges unless we say they do; whatever the state properly adds is passed through and shown on the paperwork. Commission applies to the final sale price, not to a hoped-for estimate.
Should a buyer default on the lot, a cost of that default is borne first by the buyer. Where a default costs more than a deposit can cover, we will tell the seller the numbers plainly rather than let a silent shortfall land somewhere it does not belong.
Weights, grades and records
Weight and grade turn an argument into an invoice, so they are taken seriously at the scale. Live weights are recorded on equipment that is checked and certified to the standard the law requires, and the scale runner notes each figure beside the lot. The written weight slip is the authority for price when a sale runs on a weight basis.
If a buyer or seller wants a weigh-back, a re-weight or an official grade, we talk it through and, where the sale rules allow, run it at a fair cost shared as posted. The clerk keeps a copy of every weight slip, grade ticket and sale record so that the history of a lot is provable weeks later, not just memorable on the day.
Weights and grades shown ahead of the sale are the consignor estimate or a pre-sale draft only. The binding figure is the one taken at the official weighing point the sale rules name. Everybody reads the same printed result at settlement, and there is no second private ledger.
Risk, transport and livestock
Livestock pass through many hands between the pasture gate and the buying load. BEEFWAVE LLC coordinates that passage but does not become the owner of the cattle and does not stand as the insurer of every journey unless a written agreement assigns that role to us. The risk rules of the sale, the yard rules and the hauler terms each apply at their own stage.
Where we arrange a haul, the haulier is chosen for care and licence, but the livestock ride under the terms of the haul or the trade, and any loss or injury on the road is handled under that haul paperwork, not silently on to the consignor or the buyer. We will, however, do the honest work of chasing a claim so nobody is left shouting into the wind.
All parties understand that cattle are unpredictable and sometimes fragile. A head lost before the sale-day point is a consignor matter; a head lost after hand-over is handled by the rule of the stage it was lost in. The office staff work to prevent loss with calm handling, but cannot write a promise that no head will ever misbehave.
Website content and property
The text, layout, palette, drawings, photographs, marks and ring concepts on this Site are owned by Beefwave or BEEFWAVE LLC or used with permission. Nothing on the pages hands you a right to copy the design, reuse the words for another sales site or run the ring motif as your own. The name BEEFWAVE and the BEEFWAVE LLC wordmark belong to the Company.
You may view and print the pages for your own honest reading and may share a link to a page so a rancher friend can reach the office. You may not scrape the whole site, republish the articles as a competing service or set up a mirror site, because that work is the property of the people who made it.
Any idea you send to us freely stays with the sender mind unless a written agreement assigns it; we never quietly claim clever ranch thinking a visitor brings to the sale. But the general way we run a ring, once shown on a public page, is not secret and is not yours to fence off either.
Acceptable use of the site
Use the Site the way you would behave inside a good auction hall: with sense and without harm. You must not break into parts of the site, overload the server, plant malware, drain the page with automated traffic, or try to read messages that belong to another consignor. You must not send spam, forged mail or hostile scripts to query@beefwave.autos.
You must not use the Site to run a sale of your own that pretends to be BEEFWAVE LLC, to scare off a buyer from a lot, or to copy the office list of buyers for your competing ring. Those moves injure an honest trade and will earn a ban at the gate plus whatever the law allows to recover the hurt.
The contact form exists for genuine consignment and service questions. If you need a different channel, call +18068485807. Repeatedly padding the form with noise strains the clerk desk and wastes a line that a real consignor might need, so we may rate-limit or block abusive submitters.
Disclaimers and limits
The Site is provided to you on an as is and as available basis for information and coordination. BEEFWAVE LLC does not promise that the site will never fault, that a page will be up every minute, or that a described sale result will repeat. Price figures, dates and yard data are given in good faith but can change, and the binding number always comes from the live settlement record.
Coordination advice about marketing strategy, ring timing or buyer reach is honest opinion built from the sale book, not a guarantee of profit. Livestock markets carry genuine risk, and neither the office text nor anyone who speaks for it can promise a working margin for a pen.
Nothing in these terms removes a right the law will not let us remove, including liability for harm caused by our own fault or negligence. Where a clause would collide with a mandatory consumer or trade shelter, the shelter wins and the rest of the clause leans back to the lawful edge.
Limit of responsibility
BEEFWAVE LLC is liable for its own breach of these terms and for harm caused by its own fault as the law requires. Beyond that, the Company limit of responsibility for any claim that rises out of the Service or the Site is the greater of one hundred US dollars or the total fees you actually paid to BEEFWAVE LLC for the particular engagement that gave rise to the claim.
To the fullest extent the law allows, neither BEEFWAVE LLC nor its staff is responsible for lost profit, lost cattle value, lost sales, loss of goodwill or any incidental or consequential damage that follows an event we did not cause. This line keeps a small coordination office from becoming everyone unlimited banker when a market turns hard.
Each party takes reasonable care of their own side of the deal: the consignor of the pen, the buyer of the payment and the office of the paperwork. Where a shared slip occurs, claims are sorted alongside the true records rather than by bold shouting, and each liability follows the person whose fault really moved the loss.
Your duty to protect us
You agree to stand behind BEEFWAVE LLC and its staff against a claim or loss that springs from a breach of these terms on your side. In everyday words, if you consign cattle you did not own, hide a condition from a buyer, run an unlawful shill bid or misuse the site in a way that drags the office into court, you carry that fight and that cost on your own back.
This indemnity covers reasonable legal fees as well as direct loss, but it never excuses the office from its own fault. If the Company itself caused part of the trouble, the bill is shared fairly at the ratio of real blame, not tipped all onto you just because you are the smaller party in the hall.
A good indemnity is a belt, not a trap. We ask for it so that an honest ring is not forced to eat the cost of one dishonest pen on behalf of the whole crowd of ranchers who played straight.
Suspension and termination
You may end your use of the Site at any time by simply leaving it. Terminating your reading does not cancel a consignment that is already confirmed; a started sale is finished on its own terms because cattle and buyers move once the docket opens.
BEEFWAVE LLC may suspend or end access to the Site, or decline further consignments, for a material breach of these terms, for illegal or harmful use, or where continued dealing would put a person, the crowd or the law at risk. Where it is fair to do so, we give a written warning first and a chance to put the wrong right.
Ending the relationship never lets a debt run off. Sections of these terms that need to live on past the closing of the account, such as settlement duties, indemnity, liability limits and the governing law, remain standing for the records they govern, and the privacy promises over any data already gathered keep their force until that data is lawfully let go.
Governing law and disputes
These Terms of Service are read under the laws of the State of Utah in the United States (US), without regard to its conflict of law rules. For any dispute that the law allows us to steer by agreement, the courts of Utah County, Utah, hold the first word, and the applicable federal courts follow from there.
Before anyone files a suit, the parties will try ninety days of honest, plain negotiation through the office at query@beefwave.autos or by letter to 466 N 750 E, Provo - 84606-3329, United States (US). If talks fail, and only then, the matter goes to the court named above under the rules that court keeps.
Nothing here blocks a rancher or buyer from taking a consumer claim to the small claim or regulatory process the law opens to them. The route of this section is a fair doorway for business disputes, not a locked gate against your statutory rights.
General house rules
If a court strikes one clause from these terms as unenforceable, the remaining clauses stay fully in force, and the dead line is re-read as close to its honest purpose as the law allows. Our failure to enforce a rule on one day is not a waiver of that rule on the next; the office keeps its rights unless it waves them away in writing.
These terms and the Privacy Policy together make the whole agreement about your use of the Site and our coordination service, replacing any earlier chatter on the same subject. We may update these terms from time to time as the trade and the law change; the date at the top of the page shows the current edition, and continued use after a change means you accept the new edition for the future.
No clause is meant to hurt a person who acts in good faith, and no trick reading can build a shortcut around a rule that plainly protects an honest consignor, buyer or handler. When the words could turn either way, the office reads them the way that keeps the ring trustworthy.