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livestock sale barn- buying station ?

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swindave

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where were the closest livestock sale barn, or buying station near you when you were growing up?

we had a sale barn about 35 miles away, that is still in business, vincennes indiana
they used to sell, calves, fat cattle, and cows, and all other livestock, now, just cattle
and there were at least 5 hog buying stations up until about the year 2000,loogootee, jasper, wheatland,ireland indiana
now hogs are all contract here in my part of indiana
any stories?

our only market is the nfo buying station now,
what was in your area? and what is now?
 
when I grew up in Blue Earth MN , there was a sales barn for all livestock and two hog buying stations, 2 1/2 from our farm. Where I live now in Zumbrota MN we have a Central Livestock auction barn. Has auction 4 days a week all classes livestock, hay auctions every other week end , that's a mile and a half from me. We also have another cattle buyer, that buys all week long and sells, several hundred head. they are about 4 miles away, that's where mine all go.
 
There’s one here only probably 10-15 miles from the farm. They are usually pretty busy as far as I have seen driving past. We use them because they are close and we don’t sell large quantities at a time. They usually pay a little less than other places a little further away though.
 
There was a hog buying station or two in every town, small or large. Nearly every county seat town had a sale barn. The sale barn in our county seat town burned 25 years ago. A bank branch and a strip mall sit where the building and pens used to be. Today the closest old fashioned sale barn is 35 miles away. The closest sale barn with any size to it is 75 miles from here. I am in northwest Iowa.
 
3 auction barns with 20 miles of me. All 3 only handle cattle. One barn has sale on Monday each week, another on Tuesday and the last on Saturday. Normal sale volume is between 1100-2300 head per sale day.
 
Every Sunday growing up we took livestock(cattle and hogs) to the Peoria Union Stockyards. Its been since torn down. Don't have any idea now, where you would take 'em. Everything i raise goes to the locker plant.
 
Use to have an auction 40 miles away three other buyers in that town as well two are still buying cattle today . Next closest auction is 75 miles away. I have sold almost exclusively to the same buyer for 25 years
 
There has always been a sale barn in Mora about 10 miles from my house and it's still there. Now there is another about 8 miles south. Back in the day most of the cattle and hogs for slaughter went to South St. Paul to the stock yards and the slaughter houses there. They have been closed for a long time now.
 
There is a sale barn about 15 miles from home, it’s actually still in business. I have fond memories as a kid in early 70s going there with my parents, they had a cat walk in the rafters above the holding pens that you could walk on to view the animals. The sale arena had benches arranged on a steep slope so you could sit and view the animals. They had a cable on pulleys arranged from the auctioneers desk to the office, when an animal was sold they clipped the ticket to the cable and it went up over your head and dropped it down a tube onto a desk in the office. I haven’t been there in 30 years and I don’t know how it’s run now.
 
15 miles and that was in the 1950's. I think it closed in the late 60' or early 70's. Now is 50 miles and has been in business in one form or the other since the 1950's the one I use exclusively. They have two sales a week; Monday is the hog, cattle, and sheep (which you rarely see) and on Thursday is cattle only. They also have a cow/bull only sale about once a month. One of the larger sale barns in the state.
 
Closest to me was Larned KS where I started working at 14 years old after school and weekends. Fixing board fence, cleaning pens with a loader on a Ford tractor, feeding the pens that came a day or so early, etc. On Thursday (sale day) we loaded pots out until middle of the night. Great job and I learned many things.
 
Never knew about Larned as we are quite a distance from there. Today, some I can recall still in business are; Dodge City, Hays,
Russell, Sylvan Grove, Salina, Hutchinson, Caldwell, Arkansas City, Quinter, Belleville, Marysville, Smith Center, Junction City,
Manhattan, Eldorado(?), and probably a lot of them in SE Kansas and NE Kansas that I don't know about. Probably could search and
find them all!!
 
(quoted from post at 10:39:27 02/13/21) Never knew about Larned as we are quite a distance from there. Today, some I can recall still in business are; Dodge City, Hays,
Russell, Sylvan Grove, Salina, Hutchinson, Caldwell, Arkansas City, Quinter, Belleville, Marysville, Smith Center, Junction City,
Manhattan, Eldorado(?), and probably a lot of them in SE Kansas and NE Kansas that I don't know about. Probably could search and
find them all!!
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Lot of those smaller auction went belly up. Larned quit in early 70s after I had already gone to Wichita. The operator at Hutch got in hot water for falsifying scale tickets or something but I think someone else has it now and is still selling. As a young boy spent a lot of time with Dad at McKinley Winter in Dodge. Good memories there.
 
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