Market Animal Sale Prices

Market animals. Photo by adams.uwex.edu

            You're in the sell ring selling your market sheep and the auctioneer keeps yelling  $4, $5, $6 until no one else bids. Then the next person goes in and the auctioneer shouts $4, $5, $6 till pretty soon they're at $14. How is this fair you ask? Well, its not. Being an active 4-H member myself I feel sale prices are unfair. In my opinion, someone that gets three dollars per pound for their animal versus someone who gets fourteen dollars per pound is unfair. Who ever gets more per pound gets more money overall. The other reason it's unfair is some animals are not as ideal as others but can still get more money. Other kids get more money because they have more buyers at the sell or have “bump buyers” that bump the overall price up.    
          There should be a minimum for all animals such as $400. There should also be a maximum of $700 or $800 dollars. Or there could also be a minimum and maximum price for the different type of market animals such as beef can get anywhere from $1500-$2000. With sell limitations we can stop other kids from making twice as much as someone else. The grand or reserve champion market animals are the better overall animals at the show and some kids make more money than they do, the grand and reserve champion should make the most money. So as you can see I personally believe market animal sale prices are unfair and need limitations on the price an animal can sell to avoid one kid from making a ton of money for an average animal.