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Feed dealer outbids Wal-Mart for fair pig
Country today ^ | 8-16-03 | Dana Pronschinske

Posted on 08/16/2003 3:53:26 PM PDT by SJackson

MENOMONIE -- Animals sold on the Governor's Blue Ribbon Livestock Auction weren't the only ones bringing in large amounts of money, as a local feed dealer went snout-to-snout with the nation's largest retailer.

Tracie Wold, 11, received $12.50 per pound on her 285-pound Hampshire cross hog, Jeffie. This set a new record at the Dunn County Fair Livestock Auction.

"She was pretty excited. Everyone wanted to know what her secret was, and she just said 'I don't know,'" said Tracie's mother, LeeAnn Wold.

Herdsman Feeds of Connorsville purchased her hog, after bidding against Wal-Mart Distribution.

Tracie said that the auction was very exciting. "My heart started pounding, and the crowd was laughing," Tracie said.

Tracie is a member of the Connorsville Comets 4-H Club, and Herdsman Feeds wanted to show local support. "Connorsville is our town, Wal-Mart's not from our town," said Al Drinkman of Herdsman Feeds.

"We hadn't done anything for 4-H for a number of years; we were due to show some support," said Mr. Drinkman. "I think 4-H is just great."

Mr. Drinkman, a 4-H alumni, showed a Guernsey calf named Daisy in 1959.

This was Tracie's first year with a swine project. Her barrow was not Grand Champion, but was top of the medium weight class.

Tracie purchased her feed from Herdsman Feeds and asked Mr. Drinkman to attend the livestock auction, and he said he was happy to be invited.

She plans on using her auction earnings to continue her swine project next year and put the rest toward a dirt bike or snowmobile.

Dana Pronschinske may be reached at dana.pronschinske@ecpc.com.


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: 4h; livestock; walmart
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1 posted on 08/16/2003 3:53:27 PM PDT by SJackson
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To: SJackson
Good for him. Free-market capitalism is a beautiful thing.

Wal-Mart is one of the greatest institutions America has ever created.

2 posted on 08/16/2003 3:57:50 PM PDT by Texas_Dawg (Willie Green: all Hillary Clinton and the Dems could ever ask for and more.)
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To: Texas_Dawg
Wal-Mart is one of the greatest institutions America has ever created.

Ya. They've done a wonderful job cannibalizing local economies, with sweatshop wares.

3 posted on 08/16/2003 4:01:54 PM PDT by StatesEnemy
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To: SJackson
Chinese slave labor discount store...aced out
-decent!
4 posted on 08/16/2003 4:09:07 PM PDT by joesnuffy (Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
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To: SJackson
Soooeeeeeeeeee! $3562.50 for a 4-H, that's only $3450 over market value. Our daughter received $2.50 lb. for her swine project hog. The grand champion went for $5.50.

Should note that here our 4-H market hogs must weigh 230-280 lbs or cannot be sold at auction. This girl would not have made the grade at our fair.
5 posted on 08/16/2003 4:22:11 PM PDT by Valpal1 (Impeach the 9th! Please!!)
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To: StatesEnemy
Ya. They've done a wonderful job cannibalizing local economies, with sweatshop wares.

They've actually been one of the greatest boons to local economies that the U.S. has ever seen from one corporation. Towns everywhere are begging to get them. Not that facts will do anything to diminish your anti-business Marxist worldview though.

6 posted on 08/16/2003 4:34:01 PM PDT by Texas_Dawg (Willie Green: all Hillary Clinton and the Dems could ever ask for and more.)
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To: StatesEnemy
Wal mart would shut its doors if people didn't shop there...
7 posted on 08/16/2003 4:38:52 PM PDT by Guillermo (Proud Infidel!)
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To: Texas_Dawg
Towns everywhere are begging to get them.

Been smokin' that mexican again, eh?

TD, you're just a typical Free Trade idjit.

8 posted on 08/16/2003 4:44:13 PM PDT by StatesEnemy
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To: StatesEnemy
TD, you're just a typical Free Trade idjit.

You mean a capitalist as opposed to a socialist like you? Absolutely.

I wonder how you explain the overwhelming growth and popularity of Wal-Mart ($62,640,000,000 in sales in the past 3 months). I guess all the people shopping there were forced into it or something.

9 posted on 08/16/2003 4:51:47 PM PDT by Texas_Dawg (Willie Green: all Hillary Clinton and the Dems could ever ask for and more.)
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To: SJackson
What would Wal-Mart want with a $3,500 pig? Breeding?
10 posted on 08/16/2003 4:58:17 PM PDT by rmmcdaniell
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To: Texas_Dawg
You're not a capitalist. You're a filthy robber baron.

You believe in slave labor - and bleeding the middle class to pad the bank accounts of the elite few.

You and your ilk herald the systematic destruction of the US - it's happening as we speak.

11 posted on 08/16/2003 4:58:34 PM PDT by StatesEnemy
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To: StatesEnemy
You're not a capitalist. You're a filthy robber baron.

Uh huh... Yawn...

12 posted on 08/16/2003 5:12:10 PM PDT by Texas_Dawg (Willie Green: all Hillary Clinton and the Dems could ever ask for and more.)
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To: SJackson
Good. Walmart sucks. They backed Klinton, and have everything made in China.

So I take my business elsewhere.

13 posted on 08/16/2003 5:13:41 PM PDT by Dan from Michigan ("Boom Boom! Out go the lights!" - Pat Travers)
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To: StatesEnemy
You and your ilk herald the systematic destruction of the US - it's happening as we speak.

Haha. Really?

The U.S. holds a larger market share of the world's economy (approx. 33%) than at any time in its history. The average American (your beloved "little man") lives an easier life and is wealthier than any person of his equivalent position anywhere else on Earth at this time or at any other point in the history of the world. You sound like the perfect leftist Democrat. The sky is always falling despite every single fact which points to the exact opposite.

14 posted on 08/16/2003 5:16:15 PM PDT by Texas_Dawg (Willie Green: all Hillary Clinton and the Dems could ever ask for and more.)
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To: Dan from Michigan
So I take my business elsewhere.

And that's your right. You're in a very small minority though.

15 posted on 08/16/2003 5:17:03 PM PDT by Texas_Dawg (Willie Green: all Hillary Clinton and the Dems could ever ask for and more.)
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To: Texas_Dawg
You're in a very small minority though.

Maybe, but that's $40 a week that doesn't go to Klintler backers.

16 posted on 08/16/2003 5:21:45 PM PDT by Dan from Michigan ("Boom Boom! Out go the lights!" - Pat Travers)
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To: Texas_Dawg
What planet are you living on?

'Average Americans' are so far in hock as to be functionally serfs.

Explain to me, ohhh Lone Star Mutt, how a country that doesn't produce anything can survive.

17 posted on 08/16/2003 5:24:32 PM PDT by StatesEnemy
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To: SJackson
fair pig

Is that a good-looking pig?

"You can put a dress and lipstick on a pig and drive it downtown, but it's still a pig."

18 posted on 08/16/2003 5:24:38 PM PDT by LibKill (BOHICA!)
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To: Dan from Michigan
Maybe, but that's $40 a week that doesn't go to Klintler backers.

Or to help feed and clothe 1.3 million Americans and their families directly employed by Wal-Mart.

19 posted on 08/16/2003 5:26:30 PM PDT by Texas_Dawg (Willie Green: all Hillary Clinton and the Dems could ever ask for and more.)
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To: StatesEnemy
'Average Americans' are so far in hock as to be functionally serfs.

Can you show me the economic data of yours that disproves my statement that the average American is wealthier than the average citizen of any society in the history of the world? Please, name me one society whose average citizen is wealthier than the average American today.

20 posted on 08/16/2003 5:28:00 PM PDT by Texas_Dawg (Willie Green: all Hillary Clinton and the Dems could ever ask for and more.)
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