Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
FORT SUMNER — The De Baca County Fair Junior Livestock Sale set a new record for the third straight year Aug. 13, as a combination of renewed interest and new donors proved to be the catalysts.
For the first time in history, the sale breached six figures at $119,305, smashing the former record of $81,074 set in 2021.
The sale itself totaled $93,000, exceeding the former total without add-ons. But as of Aug. 15, the add-ons had reached the $26,305 mark, boosting the preliminary total to $119,305. Fair organizers said they expect some add-ons to continue to trickle in.
The sale saw 25 lots pass through the ring, up two from 2021 and up five from 2020. The average per lot (before add-ons) was $3,720 — more than a thousand dollars above the $2,664 returned to exhibitors in 2021.
The injection of the add-on money, however, allowed fair organizers to boost each junior livestock entry to at least $3,600 per head. The high-selling animal was Bean Wall’s Grand Champion Market Steer, which went for $6,400 to Steve Reeves of R&S Industries in Clovis. Next was Brooke Layton’s crossbred swine, which sold for $5,500 to Jill Layton, Jason Davis, attorney Dan Lindsey and McCollum Cattle.
