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Hi Doc, Renia & Montana
It's good to see that ya'll joined the bunch.
I certainly hope to eventually see your auction going as well as the Blanchard auction, although location is definitely against you. I absolutely hate paying the turnpike fees to drive there, especially if I think the auction will be small. Also, one of your 2 monthly auctions is the same time as the Cement auction. It's a tough decision to stop going to one auction I like and go to another. I sure wish ya'll were at a different time or day for the 1st weekend of the month.
I too think as many of us do here that the scheduling of this new Fletcher auction does conflict with the more established and well run auctions in our area. The Fletcher auction owners need to find a way to attract the volume chicken buyers in the area, I think that is a critical to their success. If it continues to bring in the garage sale type goods instead of quality poultry that they are fast becoming the norm the big flocks of real chicken folks may just pass altogether.............................. Sorry Jim.........................
AL
Hey, that's okay, Al. It is okay for us to disagree on occasion. I'm not sure we do disagree on this all that much. I do think the big buyers who buy and then sell elsewhere should reconsider that third Saturday (although I haven't been all that impressed with Cement's selection lately, either), as they can pick up some really good bargains to sell for a good bit more in another venue. Plus if the junk is sold at 4 before the poultry part starts at 5 I don't see how that would affect chicken folks at all, although there was that time when they slipped it into the poultry auction... that was a big mistake in my view.
And them heaters and fans really do the trick for me. If Cement would start taking the comfort of the buyer into account, it would make me a happy camper.
Even if I'm wrong about this, I was right about Blanchard, wasn't I? Can't be right all the time. It would ruin my reputation.
