Baker County Fair Halfway
JR Livestock Auction
What makes the JR Livestock
Auction Special?
The young people involved have a goal to produce the highest quality food for your table. Achieving this goal takes a great deal of time & responsibility. Engaging in financial obligations and learning how to manage their own business operations only scratches the surface of the educational benefits. On a small scale as individuals, however, their costs are higher than commercial producers.
YOUR SUPPORT IS VITAL!
When you purchase an animal at the Junior Livestock Auction, you are buying prize winning livestock raised by the youth of our county. It also brings you the highest quality beef, pork, lamb, poultry, goat and rabbit for your dining pleasure.
How the Auction Works - Bidding
You will be provided a sales catalog that lists all of the animals along with their weights and owners. As each animal is led into the ring, the auctioneer asks for bids in cents per pound. The bidding continues until the high bid is reached, with the animal going to the highest bidder. If you want help in the bidding, there are official Auction Committee members who will be glad to assist you. Remember, whether you buy or not, your bidding helps to increase the sale price of the animal.
How You May Use an Animal
Individual Buyers
• Store in your freezer for a year’s supply of top quality meat.
• Give portions of the meat as special gifts to friends and relatives.
• Donate the animal to a favorite charity or organization.
• If a whole animal is too much for you, split it with a friend.
Service Clubs, Lodges, Unions
• Put on a club BBQ for social or fund raising purposes.
• Donate the animal to needy people in your community.
• Hold a club “meat auction” to build the treasury.
Business Firms
• Give packaged meat to friends. Use meat parcels and premiums for
incentive programs.
• Hold BBQ for employees.
• Auction off packaged meat to build employees’ fund.
• Resell animal and amount over market may be an IRS
deduction. Check with your accountant to determine if you are eligible.
Restaurants and Markets
• Advertise that you serve Blue Ribbon meats.
• Display a Blue Ribbon on your menu and elsewhere.
• Publicize Baker County Fair Halfway quality meat in campaign.
Auction - Monday September 4, 2023
Buyer registration and donuts at 8 AM
Awards ceremony at 8:30 AM - Auction begins at 9:00 AM
Fill out all the information on the buyers slip. Be sure to select from one of the following alternatives:
• You may consign it for processing, then taken to a frozen locker food plant for cutting, wrapping and freezing.
• You may select a butcher from those listed on the sales sheet for processing. Please list a person's name and telephone number for the butcher to contact for processing instructions. We will arrange for the animal to be transported to the applicable butcher. They will then cut and wrap your meat. The buyer will pay cut and wrap charges directly to the butcher of his/her choice.
• You may pick your animal up live.
How to Pay for Your Animal
Please pay for your purchase before leaving the sale. If it is not possible to pay the day of sale, you need to make arrangements prior to the auction.
JR Livestock members don’t receive their checks until we receive yours.
Auction Monday, September 4, 2023
Buyer registration and donuts at 8 AM
Awards ceremony at 8:30 AM
Auction begins at 9:00 AM
Baker County Fair - Halfway Livestock Auction
Madison Morgan 541-540-7184
Attention New Buyers and
Fair Supporters!!!
For any buyers that are uncomfortable bidding at an auction or unable to attend, please feel free to call one of the following sales committee members who will be happy to assist you in supporting our JR Livestock Producers.
Please follow the sale online@www.halfwayfairandrodeo.com/JR-livestock- auction.html and call when your animal is 2 lots away from selling, or call in advance of the sale and let us know and we can contact you when your animal is next to sell.
Cheryl Buchanan 541-877-2348
Mandy Clark 541-519-4109
Nathaniel Garrick 541-610-5926
Tami Foltz 541-519-4348
Steve Sargent 541-805-5510
Jayne Skidgel 541-786-1264
Katy Thomas 541-805-9682
Derral Thomas 208-739-2893
Madison Morgan 541-540-7184
Jim Wright 541-519-8676
Thanks and happy bidding!
BUYER INFORMATION AND FORMS
Help support our kids who have worked extremely hard with these great animals.
Thank you for your support.
