A Different Kind of Bull Sale

Nebraska Angus breeder Alex Peterson has a different way of conducting his sale. Tell us again when that sale is and how you do that.

“The bull sale will be April 18th at 1 o’clock and it’s located two miles east of Hagler, Nebraska. We have the sale set up. It’ll be a private treaty bid-off type auction. The bulls will be in pens and we’ll have a big board. We go pick out the bull you want and the cattlemen set the sale order. So the bull with the most names on it starts to sale just between the guys that have their names on the board and we bid them off in $500 increments. The last guy still bidding gets the bull and then we’ll just go down and say another bull has four guys on it. So we’ll do that bull and then go down to the ones. Let’s say we got a couple bulls that don’t have any names. We’ll save those clear to the end and then if somebody didn’t get a bull we’ll put them up if nobody bids and they just walk and we can usually get it done in 30 minutes. It’s super fast. We’ll have a really nice meal there. Certified Angus beef, roast beef sandwiches and cowboy candy and all kinds of different homemade food. It is a nice way to do it and it’s quick. I started doing this a while back and now I see a lot more people are doing it just because it’s fast and it’s pretty simple. One o’clock, so show up a little bit ahead of time and get your bull picked out, eat some lunch and we’ll hammer through it.”

Alex Peterson from Windmill Angus Ranch in Hagler, Nebraska.