LMA’s 46th World Livestock Auctioneer Championship Concludes

The Livestock Marketing Association’s 46th Annual World Livestock Auctioneer Championship took place Saturday, June 13th at the Fergus Falls Livestock Auction Market in Minnesota. The WLAC - an actual sale where contestants are scored on vocal clarity, talent at keeping the sale going and bid-catching ability - is held every year to spotlight competitive livestock marketing and the auctioneer’s role in that process. In his 12th WLAC - Montana auctioneer Ty Thompson won the title of World Champion.

Thompson received five-thousand dollars, the Champion’s sculpture and a new 2009 Chevy Silverado Quad Cab truck from LMA - among other things. Thompson will appear at livestock markets and other events across the country for LMA. He says he’s looking forward to doing so because livestock marketing has been good to him and his family - and he wants to give something back.

Quarterfinals to qualify contestants for the 2010 WLAC are already planned and will be held at four different locations on four separate dates: September 25th at Public Auction Yards in Billings, Montana – October 9th at Crawford Livestock Market LLC in Crawford, Nebraska – October 15th at Calhoun Stockyard in Calhoun, Georgia – and December 2nd at Parsons Livestock Market in Parsons, Kansas. The 2010 WLAC will take place at the Oklahoma National Stockyards in Oklahoma City on June 19th.