rr":onx64i22 said:
Read the article about purebred marketing and I would say that in general I dont enjoy purebred cattle sales any more. Most of them are very slow with speeches about the grandsire or reading and comments on the epd numbers of the animal selling. I can read and judge the numbers myself. Just sell the cattle. Also I have noticed that these events have problems with catching bids and knowing where the bids are, I think because the auctioneer and ringmen don't work together every day like in a sale barn.
It's the hype and hoopla that makes a registered cattle sale what it is. It's a whole different market then a regular sale. Even weekly cow/calf sales tend to be a lot like the seedstock sales. Not a bad, but still pretty long and drawn out.
It's kind of like the difference between a high school football game and the pros. Or a regular season game and the superbowl.
You just have to have the mind set that it's going to waste a lot of time and plan on making a day of it.
As to the bid situation, as long as they're as drawn out as they are, the bids will eventually get caught up.
I think that the people that attend them about half expect the hoopla. When the bids start to slow, the auctineer will come up with another tidbit and the bids pick up again. When it slows again he'll do it again. Just the nature of the beast.
I hate the large feeder/stocker sales that the animals come through the ring so fast you can't get a good look at them and the sale runs for 10-12 hours. If I was a regualr buyer I'm sure I would eventually catch on to the technique of the quick look, but since we only do it a couple of times a year at most, I just don't have the sill.
dun