OleScout
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Sale barn closed in my area last week after 63 years of operation. Not enough cattlemen and cattle left to keep it going. I think they were averaging around 200 head per week. Typical sale years ago was well over 1000 head and have seen as high as 2000. Use to be that every little farm had 10-20 head now there aren't many left. I don't think there is a neighbor cow within a mile of my place. Those pastures are now thickets or pine trees or thickets of pine trees.
Couple of months ago I was in line there unloading. I noticed the guys in the other trucks looked quite a bit older than me and I'm 62. I mentioned it to the Sale barn owner as I was unloading. He said that just about all their customers were older and were running cows because they had always run cows. He said when the current older generation is gone there will be very few cattle in our area.
Sad to see it close, one of my earliest memories (around 4 years old) was going to that sale with my Grandfather.
Couple of months ago I was in line there unloading. I noticed the guys in the other trucks looked quite a bit older than me and I'm 62. I mentioned it to the Sale barn owner as I was unloading. He said that just about all their customers were older and were running cows because they had always run cows. He said when the current older generation is gone there will be very few cattle in our area.
Sad to see it close, one of my earliest memories (around 4 years old) was going to that sale with my Grandfather.