Youth Fair wraps up with livestock auction Saturday

Vernon County Youth Fair auctioneer Bill Nance works the crowd during the livestock sale Saturday night inside the Fairgrounds Pavilion.

Photo by Hank Layton | Daily Mail

The 2021 Vernon County Youth Fair culminated Saturday night with the livestock auction, where hundreds of people packed the Fairgrounds Pavilion to bid on — or at least watch the selling of — all the steers, swine, rabbits, sheep, goats, and fowl that exhibitors from local 4-H clubs presented for judging throughout the week.

The event ran throughout the evening, with multiple auctioneers taking turns on the microphone to sell off 108 market barrows, 70 by-the-head or pen-of-three market meat rabbits, 51 market wether goats, 26 beef steers, 24 market wether lambs, 23 market turkeys, 19 pen-of-three market broilers, and13 dairy steers.

Prices, which included some premium sales, ranged from $10 to well more than $1,000.