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Crowds Pack Ham Wilson Arena for 54th Annual Auburn
University Bull Test Sale
Auburn, Jan 22, 2004 ---
For the first time in the 10 years
that she has worked with the Auburn University Bull Test Sale, Dr.
Lisa Kriese-Anderson saw a packed Ham Wilson Arena for the sale.
Kriese-Anderson, an animal scientist
with the Alabama Cooperative Extension System, said the scene
validated what she knows about Alabama cattle.
“Alabama beef producers are raising
top-quality cattle,” she said. “That arena full of buyers is evidence
that others understand the quality of animals being produced in the
state. They are choosing to buy Alabama bulls because of their
quality. They are not going out of state to other bull sales.
“Bulls in this sale are genetically in
the top 20 percent or higher of their respective breeds.”
Kriese-Anderson said producers who had
consigned bulls to the test and sale were excited by the number of
buyers as well.
“Consigning producers were pleased
with the number of buyers as well as sale prices,” she said. “It was
an upbeat day given the recent downturn in beef prices.”
Seventy-one bulls sold at the recent
sale for an average price of almost $1,900. The highest selling bull
was an Angus consigned by J. John Summerford of Summerford Cattle Co.
in Webb that sold for $4,050 to Tom Corcoran of Corcoran Farms in
Eufaula.
The total gross for the sale was
$134,600. Sixty-three bulls were sold to Alabama buyers with eight
bought by buyers from Georgia,
Florida and North Carolina.
The Auburn University Bull Test, begun
in 1951, is the oldest continuous performance bull test in the United
States. Extension specialists have supervised the test since the
early 1980s.
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