All of the Champions in each breed of livestock sold first. The Grand Champion Dairy Steer fetched a whopping $5.65 a pound after some heavy back and forth bidding done by several buyers in the front rows on the floor around the sale ring who’d tried and failed to win the Angus beef steer that was sold just before it. The young man Cole was runner up to was going home with an $8,000 plus pay day for his dairy beef steer.
The Reserve Grand Champion Beef Steer was now on the auction block in the tighter ring made out of what had been the show ring all week in the center of the Coliseum floor.
Cole stood just behind the smaller ring with Big Boy. He was tugging at the collar of his dress shirt like it was chocking him. The look on his face when bidding dropped off at $3.00 a pound for the b
