Merry Christmas From Cattlemen’s Livestock Auction – Feeder Cattle Prices
Merry Christmas to our buyers and sellers!
“A child is born to us! A son is given to us! And He will be our ruler. He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.” Isaiah 9:6
As Christmas approaches there is so much to be thankful for. It is a time where we can pause and reflect on the important things around us. A time where we can look back on the year passed and prepare for the year ahead. Carl, Christie, Landon, and Melinda want to sincerely thank you for your support this year. We have been blessed by the wonderful people in our lives and want to let you know we truly appreciate you. We hope you have a joyful Christmas and many blessings in the year to come.
We also wanted to share a couple of dates for you to keep in mind:
- Friday, December 21st at 6 pm is the goat and sheep sale.
- We are closed Wednesday, December 26th and Wednesday, January 2nd. Cattle sales will resume Wednesday, January 9th.
- January 16th is our PREVAC sale.
To see the latest feeder cattle prices, see our beef market prices report. For questions regarding sales or other cattle-related questions, call Landon at 479-200-0410.
Again, we appreciate you and are praying that 2019 is full of blessings for our sellers and buyers.
So God Made a Farmer
“And on the 8th day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, “I need a caretaker.” So God made a farmer.
God said, “I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, milk cows, work all day in the fields, milk cows again, eat supper and then go to town and stay past midnight at a meeting of the school board.” So God made a farmer.
“I need somebody with arms strong enough to rustle a calf and yet gentle enough to deliver his own grandchild. Somebody to call hogs, tame cantankerous machinery, come home hungry, have to wait lunch until his wife’s done feeding visiting ladies and tell the ladies to be sure and come back real soon — and mean it.” So God made a farmer.
God said, “I need somebody willing to sit up all night with a newborn colt. And watch it die. Then dry his eyes and say, ‘Maybe next year.’ I need somebody who can shape an ax handle from a persimmon sprout, shoe a horse with a hunk of car tire, who can make harness out of haywire, feed sacks and shoe scraps. And who, planting time and harvest season, will finish his forty-hour week by Tuesday noon, then, pain’n from ‘tractor back,’ put in another seventy-two hours.” So God made a farmer.
God had to have somebody willing to ride the ruts at double speed to get the hay in ahead of the rain clouds and yet stop in mid-field and race to help when he sees the first smoke from a neighbor’s place. So God made a farmer.
God said, “I need somebody strong enough to clear trees and heave bails, yet gentle enough to tame lambs and wean pigs and tend the pink-combed pullets, who will stop his mower for an hour to splint the broken leg of a meadow lark. It had to be somebody who’d plow deep and straight and not cut corners. Somebody to seed, weed, feed, breed and rake and disc and plow and plant and tie the fleece and strain the milk and replenish the self-feeder and finish a hard week’s work with a five-mile drive to church.
“Somebody who’d bale a family together with the soft strong bonds of sharing, who would laugh and then sigh, and then reply, with smiling eyes, when his son says he wants to spend his life ‘doing what dad does.'” So God made a farmer.”