Saturday, for the closing of the San Angelo Stock Show and Rodeo, a premium sale was held in the show barns. The premium sale is held for local businesses to contribute money to the youth showing livestock.
This money can be used towards scholarship funds or buying new livestock animals for the following year. The sale included 136 exhibitors during the live auction and 78 exhibitors for add-ons. This makes a total of 214 4-H and Future Farmers of America students to whom regional businesses contributed.
Derek Morrison, the Vice President of Operations at Glazer’s Wholesale said, “Today is the prize money day for all of these kids.”
Jim Bass Ford was one of the main contributors during this sale. The car dealer contributed a generous about of money to the first eight exhibitors as well as many throughout the rest of the sale. Todd Price, the General Manager of Jim Bass Cars and Trucks said that they donated to 40-50 kids during the sale. That is roughly one-fifth of the auction that they helped support.
Price said, “Today’s sale was phenomenal, considering the economy that we are in today. With a lot of the oil field business going away we didn’t have that participation in today’s sale.”
Due to that loss of business, “the local folks, the local owners and business owners just really stepped up and helped these kids today, and that’s what it’s all about,” Price said.
Last night, the total bids, unofficially, for the Premium Sale was estimated to be around $673,000 but more “add-on” money was expected that may bring the total over $700,000. This is slightly down from last year’s. Because the San Angelo Stock Show and Rodeo is a 501(c)-3 as classified by the IRS, all donations are tax-deductible.
Here are videos of the Top 8 of the 2016 San Angelo Stock Show Premium Sale:
Grand Champion Market Steer
Rebecca Andrews, Deaf Smith Co. 4-H
Buyers: Lone Star Beef, HEB, 1st Community Federal Credit Union, Rocking Chair Ranch, Gandy Inc., First Financial Bank, Republic Services, Twin Mountain Fence Co., and Cross Country Construction.
Grand Champion Market Goat
Brad Winn, Hood Co. 4H
Buyers: Slovensky Ranch, Joan Slovensky, Bob Kolger, David McCrea, Frank Carter, City Lumber, KLST, KSAN, Little Caesars Pizza, Metter Construction, Tom & Elaine Lee, Acme Brick, Trans Texas Southwest Credit Union, Twin Mountain Fence Co., AB Distributing, 1st Community Federal Credit Union, State Rep. Drew Darby, Cross Country Family Hair Salon, HEB, Bucky Lewis, and Jim Bass Ford
Grand Champion Market Barrow
Tyleigh Joe Price, Snyder FFA
Buyers: Gandy Ink, 1st Community Federal Credit Union, Rafter C. Construction, Chemical Weed Control, South Plains Implement, Texas Water and Soil, Neff Livestock, First Financial Bank Foundation, Bridgeport Fishing Tools, Select Energy, Jim Bass Ford, Lone Star CPA, HEB, Bug Express Pest Control, West Texas Steel and Twin Mountain Fence Company.
Grand Champion Market Lamb
Hudson Franklin, Lubbock Co. 4-H
Buyers: Twin Mountain Fence Company, Armstrong Backus & Company, 1st Community Federal Credit Union, Gandy Ink, Trans Texas Southwest Credit Union, HEB, Sendaro Drilling, Automatic Fire Protection, E.J. Ian Ranch, Mesquite Contract Pumping, Jim Bass Ford, Republic Services, Cross Country Construction, Jody's Roofing, The Bank & Trust, Lone Star Beef, Jimmy & Virginia Cole and SAMS Club.
Reserve Grand Champion Market Steer
Madellyne Adams, Brown Co. 4-H
Buyers: City Lumber Wholesale, Lone Star Beef, South Tran Land & Cattle, Glazer's, Cross Country Construction, West Texas Credit Union, CMCU Insurance Services, Lucid Energy, HEB, Jim Bass Ford, West Central Wireless, Bug Express, 1st Community Federal Credit Union, and Central Texas Farm Credit.
Reserve Grand Champion Market Goat
Tristan Harbour, Coryell Co. 4-H
Buyers: Automatic Fire Protection, Findaranch.com, Ran D Ark, Jim Bass Ford, 1st Community Federal Credit Union, HEB, Housley Communications, Glazer's, Republic Services and John Slovensky.
Reserve Grand Champion Market Barrow
Aubree Garner, Merkel FFA
Buyers: Sendaro Drilling, Zentner's Daughter, Automatic Fire Protection, Saddle Trans Land & Cattle, First Financial Bank Foundation, Trans Texas Southwest Credit Union, Gandy Ink, Tommy Neil, San Angelo Standard-Times, Jim Bass Ford, 1st Community Federal Credit Union, Rafter C Construction, and HEB
Reserve Grand Champion Market Lamb
Dalton York, Tarrant Co. 4-H
Buyers: Twin Mountain Fence Co., First National Bank Ballinger, No Step Ranch, West Texas Steel, John & Joanne Walter, 1st Community Federal Credit Union, Texas Water & Soil, Neff Livestock, Armstrong Bakus, Gandy Ink, HEB, Mac Matthews, Jim Bass Ford, San Angelo Live!, GA Auto Glass and Patriot Automation.
Here are many of the local winners from today’s Premium Sale and what each winner had to say:
Zoey Hanrahan, Megan Holmquest, and Joe Hyde contributed to this report.
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