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EVENTS
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Aug. 27-29 2021 Sheepherders Rendezvous, Glenrock City Park, Glenrock. For more information, visit conversecountytourism.com. Aug. 30 Bighorn Basin Sage Grouse Working Group Meeting, 9 a.m., Washakie County Fairgrounds, Worland. For more information, visit wgfd.wyo.gov. Sept. 3-5 Up in Arms, LLC Flea Market and Gun Show, Cam-Plex, Gillette. For more information, contact Lisa at 208-420-2295. Sept. 4 Shoshoni Ranch Hand Rodeo, Art Shanley Memorial Arena, Shoshoni. To enter, call after 4 p.m. or text Tara Peter at 307-349-5844.
Sept. 4 University of Wyoming College of Ag & Natural Resources Ag Day BBQ,
Indoor Practice Facility. For more information, visit uwyo.edu/uwag/ or call 307-766-4133 Sept. 5-6 33rd Annual Don King Days, Big Horn Equestrian Center, Big Horn. For more information, visit thebhec.org/donkingdays.htm. Sept. 8 Wyoming Pork Producers Association Election of Delegates Meeting, 6 p.m., Grace Werner Ag Pavilion, Casper College, Casper. For more information, contact Jeremy Burkett at 307-630-6267. Sept. 10-11 Independent Cattlemen of Wyoming Annual Conference, Clarion, Casper. For more information, contact Joyce Menke at joymenke@gmail.com. Sept. 10-12 Hells Canyon Mule Days, Wallowa County Fairgrounds, Enterprise, Ore. For more information, visit hellscanyonmuledays.com or call 541-426-3271 or 541-263-0104. Sept. 15-19 Region Two American Quarter Horse Regional Championship, Rapid City, S.D. For more information, visit aqharegion2.com or e-mail region2show@gmail.com. Sept. 20-21 Sandhills Cattle Association’s 82nd Annual Convention, Valentine, Neb. For more information and to register, visit sandhillscattle.com. Sept. 21-23 North Montana Angus Tour, Great Falls, Mont. For more information and to register, visit mtangus.org. Sept. 28 Public Lands Council Annual Meeting, online. For more information and to register, visit publiclandscouncil.org/plc-events. Oct. 6-10 Trailing of the Sheep Festival. Sun Valley, Ketchum and Hailey, Idaho. For more information, visit trailingofthesheep.org.
SALES
Sept. 3-5 Powder River Quarter Horse Breeders Association 44th Annual Horse
Sale, Futurity & Versatility Ranch Horse Show, Broadus, Mont., 406427-5420, prqhba.com Sept. 4 Proffit Ranch 20th Annual Labor Day Horse Sale, Diamond X Ranch, Evanston, 307-723-5857, proffitranch.com Sept. 11 Open Box Rafter Ranch 28th Annual Horse Sale, Rapid City, S.D., 605538-4450, rafterranch.com Sept. 11 Rafter 7 Merinos Annual Ram and Ewe Sale, Eureka County Fairgrounds, Eureka, Nev., 775-221-3206, 843-693-2461, 775-237-6134, rafter7.com Sept. 11 10th Annual SanBar Ranch Production Sale, ConToy Arena, Mt. Pleasant, Utah, 435-469-1232, sanbarranch.net Sept. 14 93rd Annual Wyoming State Ram Sale, Wyoming State Fairgrounds, Douglas, 307-265-5250, 307-351-1422, wyowool.com Sept. 14 Western Video Market, Haythorn Ranch, Ogallala, Neb., 530-347-3793, wvmcattle.com Sept. 14 Hay Auction, Vetal Fire Hall, Martin, S.D., 605-208-7152, 605-441-0092 Sept. 15 8th Annual Montana Ewe Sale, Eastern Montana Fairgrounds, Miles City, Mont., 406-945-0404, mtsheep.org Sept. 16 96th Annual Montana Ram Sale, Eastern Montana Fairgrounds, Miles City, Mont., 406-210-2852, mtsheep.org
Big horn Basin
LIVESTOCK AUCTION LLC
Worland, WY
Sale Barn: 307-347-9201 Danny Vigil: 307-388-0781
Broadcasting and Online Bidding Available At lmaauctions.com. Please visit to fill out an application and view auctions.
Authorized Dealer
Danny Vigil Northern Livestock Represenative
August 26 • 305 Hd.
Cows Steady • Bulls Steady
BILLY
Shaffer, Beth - Worland 1 XBred Billy......................$150/Hd.
EWE
Horseshoe Spear - Basin 1 WF Ewe, 160#......................$6500 Geis, Ernest - Worland 8 WF Ewes, 145#....................$5500
GOAT
Horseshoe Spear - Basin 1 XBred Goat....................$130/Hd. 3 XBred Goats...................$100/Hd.
KID
Anthony, Katherine - Ten Sleep 2 Boer Kids........................$180/Hd.
LAMB
Henning, Edward - Worland 16 WF Lambs, avg. 82#........$24700 Stimpson, Ira - Greybull 2 WF Lambs, avg. 83#..........$24000 Teppert, Floyd - Ten Sleep 6 XBred Lambs, avg. 89#......$22000 Woffinden, Robert - Worland 2 BKF Lambs, avg. 105#.......$21500
BULLS
McCracken, Shawn - Powell 1 Char Bull, 2520#...................$9050 Baird, Jack - Thermopolis 1 Hrfd Bull, 1885#....................$8950 Lewton, Kent & Ann - Ten Sleep 1 Blk Bull, 1700#......................$8650 1 Blk Bull, 1710#......................$8400 Ready, Michael - Thermopolis 1 Xbred Bull, 1820#.................$8650 Ward, Paul - Thermopolis 1 Blk Bull, 1590#......................$8450 Lyman Ranch Co. - Ten Sleep 1 Blk Bull, 2110#.......................$8350 Bennett/M & M Live Trust - Manderson 1 Hrfd Bull, 1780#....................$8300 Brubaker Sheep Co. - Ten Sleep 1 Hrfd Bull, 1935#....................$8300 Holland, Pamela Ann - Worland 1 Hrfd Bull, 2095#....................$7900 Smith, Roger - Powell 1 Blk Bull, 2685#......................$7500
COWS
Lyman Ranch Co. - Ten Sleep 1 Blk Cow, 1755#.....................$6900 2 Blk Cows, avg. 1523#...........$6350 1 Blk Cow, 1400#.....................$5850 Arapahoe Ranch - Thermopolis 1 Blk Cow, 1580#.....................$6900 1 Blk Cow, 1545#.....................$6450 Black, Vern - Riverton 1 Blk Cow, 1280#.....................$6850 Murdock, Robin - Deaver 1 Blk Cow, 1795#.....................$6700 1 Red Cow, 1695#...................$5600 Anderson, Sawyer - Worland 1 Blk Cow, 1385#.....................$6650 2 Blk Cows, avg. 1665#...........$6350 1 Red Cow, 1505#...................$6350 Lewton, Kent & Ann - Ten Sleep 1 Blk Cow, 1760#.....................$6400 Starbuck Ranch LLC - Ten Sleep 6 Blk Cows, avg. 1473#...........$6300 Anderson, Sawyer - Worland 1 Red Cow, 1810#...................$6300 2 Red Cows, avg. 1460#.........$6200 1 Hrfd Cow, 1440#...................$6100 1 Red Cow, 1840#...................$5900 2 Red Cows, avg. 1460#.........$5500 Darling, Chanse - Hyattville 1 RWF Cow, 1485# .................$6150 1 Blk Cow, 1460#.....................$5550
3 Blk Cows, avg. 1178#...........$5250 Ward, Paul - Thermopolis 1 Blk Cow, 1270#.....................$6100 Neves, Jay - Otto 3 Blk Cows, avg. 1100#...........$5300
HEIFERS
Thompson Cattle Co. - Billings 8 BWF Hfrs, avg. 789#..........$14700 Darling, Chanse - Hyattville 2 Blk Hfrs, avg. 913#..............$13750
HEIFERETTES
Neves, Jay - Otto 4 Blk Hfrettes, avg. 771#.......$10200 Arapahoe Ranch - Thermopolis 1 BWF Hfrette, 1090#..............$8600
STEERS
Schmidt Ranch - Plymouth 6 Blk Strs, avg. 710#..............$15550 Lyman Ranch Co. - Ten Sleep 3 Blk Strs, avg. 817#..............$15500 2 Blk Strs, avg. 945#..............$14500 Arapahoe Ranch - Thermopolis 3 Blk Strs, avg. 858#..............$15100
• Upcoming Sales •
Sept. 9 – All Class Cattle •
Start of Weekly Sales! Sept. 16 – All Class Cattle,
Sheep & Goat Sept. 18 – Saturday Horse
Sale at 1 p.m. Sept. 20 – Monday - Bawl of the Fall, Feeder Cattle Only Sept. 23 – All Class Cattle Sept. 30 – All Class Cattle
Sept. 16 Cattle Country Video Sandhills Roundup Sale, Cheyenne Frontier Days Event Center, Cheyenne, 888-322-8853, cattlecountryvideo.com Sept. 17 Northern Livestock Video Auction Fall Premier, 866-616-5035, northernlivestockvideo.com Sept. 17-18 25th Anniversary Van Norman and Friends Production Sale, Elko County Fairgrounds, Elko, Nev., 775-756-6508, 775-934-7404, vannormansale.com Sept 19 19th Annual Sugar Bars Legacy Sale, Sheridan County Fairgrounds, Sheridan, 605-347-8120, sugarbarslegacy.com
Sept. 30 Marcy Livestock Scale Crusher Mature Cow Herd Dispersal and Marcy
Cattle Company Bred Female Complete Dispersal, Gordon Livestock Auction, Gordon, NE, 308-638-7587, 308-430-2005, marcycattlecompany.com Oct. 8-10 24th Annual Fall Colt & Yearling Catalog Sale & Futurity, Farmers and Ranchers Livestock Commission Co., Salina, Kan., 785-826-7884, 785-4932901, 785-825-0211 Nov. 1 Pharo Cattle Company Sale, Burlington, Colo., 800-311-0995, pharocattle. com Nov. 20 Redland Angus Annual Production Sale, Buffalo Livestock Auction, Buffalo, 307-250-1548, redlandangus.com
POSTCARD from the Past
Compiled by Dick Perue rrichardperue@gmail.com
Wyoming State Fair
An article in the June 29, 1920, issue of the Douglas Enterprise reads:
For the past 15 years, the annual state fair has been held in Douglas. The beautiful and well-kept fairgrounds are located on the edge of the city, and the Secretary of the Fair Commission is a resident and has offices on the fairgrounds.
To the outsider, it is evident there must be some reason for a state fair being held at one point for 15 years, and the erection of fine buildings on the grounds at an enormous expense.
There is a reason. Every man in Converse County can explain the question. In fact, every farmer in the state can tell you in a few words why, of all the cities in the state of Wyoming, Douglas was chosen as the home of the fairgrounds and for the holding of the annual exhibit of Wyoming products.
In the first place, Douglas is almost in the center of the state of Wyoming. This enables everyone in the state to visit the fair with the least expense.
Located on two main line railroads, Douglas offers rail facilities, which few other towns in the state can boast. These railroads each year offer rates to and from the state fair, thus enabling all to take advantage of the wonderful opportunity of visiting the exhibition grounds and seeing for themselves in what class Wyoming as an agricultural and livestock raising state belongs.
Douglas has an excellent highway leading into the city from every direction and connecting with all the main points in the state. The famous Yellowstone highway connects with Denver, Laramie, Cheyenne and Wheatland and offers visitors by motor from Evanston and the southern corner of state an excellent route along the Lincoln highway to the junction and then north on the beautiful Yellowstone highway.
From the east along the northwestern track bed, runs the Grant trail, famous and known through the state as one of the best kept and finest state highways. To the north comes the road from Newcastle, across the Cheyenne River and straight through.
This road at the present time is being worked to insure a large attendance from this section of the state and for other purposes, too. This route in Newcastle swings north through the Osage fields and draws the Sheridan County people over the good roads into the fair. Then to the northwest runs the Yellowstone highway, by way of which many from the Big Horn Basin can attend.
This year, the Board of State Fair Managers is arranging for free camping grounds. Anyone wishing to bring his own equipment will be assigned to a place on these grounds, and parties not having camp equipment will be furnished same at a nominal rate, provided the request is received by the secretary not later than Sept. 1. The grounds will be carefully policed day and night by trustworthy watchmen.
The excellent facilities of Douglas – hotels, restaurants and other places of comfort for the visitors, also, is considered and is one of the reasons why the fair is held in this section of the state.
The fair this year will be held Sept. 14-17. Held in the fall each year, it gives every farmer a chance to have his grain for exhibition on the ground with ample growth to make of it, a winner. Thus are the best grains of the country obtained and put on display, a crying slander to those who have said Wyoming could not become an agricultural center.
Annual exhibits of purebred livestock place the Wyoming State Fair in a class and on a par with any held in the nation. That Wyoming leads in the number of purebred animals is certain and exhibits of beautiful stock are to be seen.
Ever a source of enjoyment to young and old are the horse races which are held. Prize-winning horses from every section of the country, race strings of international note come to Douglas to try for some of the big purses which are offered.
An aeroplane circus this year will be attempted if plans now formulated by the Board of Managers carry. This will be a new thrill to many of the people of the state and will draw a large attendance from every corner of the state.
Graded stock, ever a source of keen pleasure to the stockmen and people of Wyoming will be in the gala day attire, slick and shining for the occasion.
Gay, prancing horses, once the mainstay of the country for power, but now relegated to second place by the motor, will be at their best.
Cattle of every breed will be there to show their various merits to the visitors. Sheep of the kind that mean fortunes to their owners will prove Wyoming is still a sheep country.
In the beautiful agricultural building, a permanent structure of beauty to the city and the grounds, will be shown rare exhibits of almost everything attempted in Wyoming from first grade primmer work to hardy grains raised in the dry farming areas.
Prizes of substantial sums will be awarded for the winners of the exhibits.
Always a source of pride and anticipation, the Wyoming State Fair this year will by far eclipse anything before attempted in the line. Plan to leave the farm and come, September 14, 15, 16 and 17.
EXPO continued from page 1
President Chad Wright, Executive Vice President Tari Hoagland, Livestock Coordinator Bill Angell, Consultant Gene Stillahn and Directors Brian Allmers, Van Niedig and Kelli Toledo.
Cattle events
According to the Great Northern Livestock Exposition, the event will feature open and junior cattle breed shows, including point shows for the following breeds: American Highland, Charolais, Chianina, Limousin, MaineAnjou, Miniature Hereford and Simmental. The American Angus Association added premiums for the Angus Open Show.
According to Fraser, a total of $80,000 in cash prizes will be available, with $10,000 awarded to the exhibitors of the Supreme Champion Bull and the Supreme Champion Female during the Great Northern Open Supreme Galas, as well as the Junior Show Supreme Champion Female and the Supreme Champion Market Steer. A prize of $5,000 will be awarded to the exhibitor of the Prospect Steer and Heifer Show Supreme Champion.
Market and prospect shows will also offer showmanship classes.
A Great Northern “All American” Angus Female Sale will also take place during the event. In addition, the event will host the Great Northern Lights Prospect Sale, featuring top steers and heifers.
Other attractions
In addition to numerous cattle events, the Great Northern Livestock Exposition will hold a junior sheep and goat market show, with $5,000 awarded to the exhibitors of the Supreme Champion Market Lamb and Supreme Champion
Wool demonstration – Shearer Gus Pellatz provides a sheep shearing demonstration outside the Wool Barn during the Wyoming State Fair in Douglas. Traci Dilts photo Market Goat.
The Great Northern Livestock Exposition will also host a stock dog trial event, provide live entertainment and host a 2021 Ford F-150 raffle.
“We are going to hold a Thanksgiving dinner for all of the exhibitors, staff and the visiting public, too,” shared Fraser. “We want to treat everyone like a big family, because this is what showing livestock means to us.”
Averi Hales is the editor of the Wyoming Livestock Roundup. Send comments on this article to roundup@wylr.net.
For the event schedule, sponsorship opportunities, lodging details and more, visit greatnorthernlivestockexpo. com. Livestock entries open Sept. 1 and close Oct. 15. Late entries will be accepted from Oct. 16-Nov. 1 for an additional fee.
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