Since we are just beginning the craziness of picking and buying for the next show season, I thought it might be fun to discuss how you like to aquire your stock for the next season.....private treaty, load and go, on-line bid off? Do you like to go out and do the looking yourself or do you prefer to have a picker take care of all of that? Chat about your process....I remember a number of years ago when live auctions in the end of October and early November was about the only way cattle were sold....anymore cattle have been traded 2 or 3 times by then....