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.
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.
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.
Been smokin' that mexican again, eh?
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.
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.
Uh huh... Yawn...
So I take my business elsewhere.
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.
And that's your right. You're in a very small minority though.
Maybe, but that's $40 a week that doesn't go to Klintler backers.
'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.
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."
Or to help feed and clothe 1.3 million Americans and their families directly employed by Wal-Mart.
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.
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