Farmington Livestock

This was my first visit to this sale barn for the sale. I have dropped cattle off over the weekend for the next week’s sale. Drop off for with regular trucks and trailers is on the North side of the facility. For Semi trucks, I’m not sure it may be on the South side for them.
They hold their livestock auction every Wednesday so due to my work scheduled I don’t have a chance to attend unless they happen to have a very large sale.
My neighbor went to the sale that day and purchased a couple of nice steers for me so I went to pick them up. Fortunately they had a large turnout of cattle and were still selling at 7:00pm. Because I had never been to this facility before I went into the main office where they had 3 gals stationed and asked for a number. She stated that they give them out in the ring, so I made my way to the sale ring. Normally you register for a buyer number very similar to a estate auction, but here they assign you a number once you have made your first purchase.
The facility is a little older but was very comfortable with a very good view of the sale ring. Monitors are easy to see and they keep them updated quickly with head counts and weights. I didn’t buy any additional cattle, but I can say Keith has a very nice place that I’m sure will get nothing but better as time goes on.
I look forward to getting a chance to get back there and spend a day rather than just an hour or so.
Load out was pretty easy, but I will say the angle backing up for loading is a little odd, but not loading before, I put the truck a bit to close to the fence trying to get straight only to find it would have been easier to be pointed a little southeast rather than just south. BTW, which is on the South side of the facility for load out.