St. Croix County's 41st Annual Meat Animal Auction
100 Top Quality Beef, Sheep, Hogs, and Goats When: July 24, 2009, 6:30 pm
Where: St. Croix County Fair Grounds Cattle Judging Arena, Glenwood City, Wisconsin
Registration: Starts at 5:30 pm at north end of judging arenaThis is your opportunity to demonstrate your faith in the future of our youth. The support of the business community is and always has been appreciated by project members. It is also appreciated when families join together to purchase and share meat from this auction. What do I get for my Money? When you purchase a beef, sheep, hog, or goat at the St. Croix County Meat Animal Auction you get the opportunity to support the local 4-H & FFA program & exhibitors, receive high quality meat for your freezer, and advertising both during the fair and in our next advertisement for next year's auction. If you would like to see what is available check out this page on the day of the meat animal auction for a catalog of lot numbers available. What is the quality of my purchase?
Each buyer is guaranteed to receive a high quality meat product. Only the top 100 animals (30 beef, 18 sheep, 50 hogs, and 2 goats) judged at the St. Croix County Fair are eligible to be sold at the auction. If you would like to see results from last year's sale feel free to email us at auction AT stcroixcounty4-h.org and request the carcass evaluation report. Group Purchasing Power Interested in buying an animal but don't know what you are going to do with all of the meat? We have seen buyers put a sign up sheet at their work to interest their employees. The company pays for the beef, sheep, hog, or goat at the fair and charge their employees retail price and write the rest of the cost off as advertising. Remember, it is still a tax deductible donation. What are the processing costs? All beef and sheep go to Eggert's Slaughtering, Inc. south of Clear Lake. All hogs go to Olson's Woodville Meats in Woodville. All goats go to Northlwoods Lockers, LLC near Clayton, WI. All estimated processing charges* are listed below. Beef - Avg weight: 800 - 900 lbs, $55
Slaughtering, Cooling, and Handling Charges Sheep - Avg weight: 70 - 80 lbs, $20
Slaughtering, Cooling, and Handling Charges Goats - Avg weight: 50 - 60 lbs, $55Slaughtering, Cooling, and Handling Charges Hogs - Avg weight: 180 - 200 lbs
Slaughtering: $25
Cutting & Wrapping: 40¢ / lb
Smoking: 65¢ / lb
Slaughtering, Cooling, Handling of hogs not processed by Olson's: $35 * prices are subject to change without notice What about the animal?
The beef, sheep, hog, and goat will be shipped off to a local slaughter plant. Beef and sheep will be slaughtered at Eggert's Slaughtering, Inc. south of Clear Lake. Hogs are slaughtered by Olson's Woodville Meats. Goats are slaughtered by Northwoods Lockers, LLC, Clayton, WI. You can have your hogs cut and wrapped at Olson's or send them to your preferred meat processor. Beef, hogs, and goats will need to be sent to another plant for cutting and wrapping. All meat will be state inspected. Advertising your Business Every business that purchases a beef, sheep, hog, or goat at the meat animal auction will get their business name announced and thanked during the auction. We will also include your business name on our auction advertisement next year as a thank you for your participation. |
4-H is open to youth in grades 1-13 (one year out of high school). Generally you can join any time of the year although it is best to join in the fall because that is when 4-H clubs are reorganizing. If you have news that you would like to have posted to the 4-H website feel free to sign up for an account and submit your news. As soon as it is approved then your news item or calendar item will be added to the website. Not hard to do at all. Questions? Call Jason at 760-9600 or email the webmasters (webmaster AT stcroixcounty4-h.org). Also for you geeks out there feel free to subscribe to the RSS feed from the site. Click Here to subscribe. One final note. I am in need of volunteers to help me design the infrastructure behind the St. Croix County 4-H Web Site. If you are interested in helping me out feel free to call me at 760-9600 or email the webmasters (webmaster AT stcroixcounty.org). You don't have to know anything about web page designing. All you need is an interest in promoting the St. Croix County 4-H Program. If you find a link that isn't active please let me know so I can get it fixed right away.