Junior Livestock Sale Support

[tande]

Our County show is currently using a system to get support for the juniors projects on sales day, in which they give each junior a card in the morning before the sale and have them go gather up money from buyers there. then each junior leads their animals through the ring and they "Sell" them, in all reality they just turn in their card. This hasn't really worked very well the last few years. It really creates a headache as far as paper as you get no information before.

How are others sales run so that good support can be received for all juniors involved? I think this could be modified and people could put money on projects before the sale. Any input on how your sales are currently run would be great. We are looking at putting to together a committee and makes some changes this next year.

 

[DSC]

At our county fair there is a sale committee that gets together months before the fair and they round up buyers for the sale. Each animal is ran through the ring and is actually sold. No pre sale of animals are done. After the sale the buyers can go to the table where the sale clerk is and add money onto certain animals if they so chose. It has been ran this way for years and havent ever really heard of any issues. I find it odd that the kids have to go out and gather their own money before the sale at your fair. It might be just me but that doesnt make sense to even have a sale then.

JMO
Thanks

 

[GoWyo]

We have a junior livestock sale and the animals are sold.  The county sale committee reserves a number of spots at 3 area custom processing plants and the committee will haul market animals to the processor of the buyer's choosing.  There is also a large buyer that will buy any animals at market price if a buyer wants to "re-sale" the animal.  Some of the larger businesses will purchase 5 or 10 animals and the re-sale is very handy for them.  The smart kids get out and talk to buyers and usually receive a couple more bumps on the bids that can make an extra $500-$1000 difference.  The sale committee runs a couple of ads in the local paper before the sale recognizing the previous year's buyers and a couple of ads after the sale recognizing the current year's buyers.  Buyers of grand and reserve animals get their names in much larger letters in the ads.